Land Use Consequences
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Objective
I can analyze the environmental and economic consequences of different land use practices.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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Climatopias are utopian urban designs that attempt to address climate change through sustainable urban settlements.
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Environmental planning is an interdisciplinary field focused on building sustainable communities that are better places to live, work, and play, and it aims for positive results for people, planet, profits, and community.
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Gentrification, which can result from new urbanism, occurs when land value and rent increase in lower-income areas due to new investment, potentially pricing out lower-income residents if economic opportunities and affordable housing are not increased.
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Practice
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What is environmental planning, and which disciplines does it involve?
Explain the concept of the 'quadruple bottom line' in sustainable development.
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Exit ticket
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“Describe one environmental and one economic consequence of choosing a greenfield development over a brownfield development.”
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