Chapter 13 Quizlet
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KarynnaOkabeMiyamoto on January 19, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 City Planning | The professional pursuit that attempts to design cities in such a way to maximize their efficiency,functionality, and beauty. |
| Greenways | A recreational or pedestrian use rather than a typical street corridor , as well as an emphasis on introducing or maintaining vegetation in a location where it is lacking that certain vegetation. |
| Smart Growth | A city planning concept in which a community's growth is managed in ways that limit sprawl and maintain or improve residents' quality of life. |
| Urban Ecology | A scientific field that views cities explicitly as ecosystems. |
| Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) | In city planning, a geographic boundary intended to separate areas desired to be ubran from areas desired to remain rural. |
| Urbanization | The shift from rural to city and suburban living. |
| Suburbs | A smaller community that rings around a city. |
| Sprawl | The unrestrained spread of urban or suburban development outward from a city center and across the landscape. |
| Regional Planning | City planning done on broader geographic scales, generally involving multiple municipal governments. |
| Zoning | The practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use. |
| New Urbanism | A school of thought among architects,planners, and developers that seek to design neighborhoods in which homes, businesses, schools, and other amenities are within walking distance of one another. |
| Noise Pollution | Excessive human, animal, or machine created environmental noise that disrupts the activity or balance of human or animal life. |
| Light Pollution | Excessive or obtrusive artificial light. |
| Bedroom Community | An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood. |
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