Urban Sprawl

What is a "Metropolitan area"

• An area

• a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it

• a developed area at the edge of a city that is mainly homes. Many suburbs also have stores and businesses.

• the small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city’s suburbs

What is an "Urban fringe"

• A fringe

• the ring of small towns and suburbs that surround a big city

• a legal border that separates urban land from rural land.

• the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

What is a "Rural fringe"

• the small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city’s suburbs

• involves filling in empty or run-down parts of a city with new development.

• A fringe

• A city that has broken down parts that have been filled

What is a suburb

• A city

• land

• mountain

• A place with cool houses

Define Urban Sprawl (Plz dont look up)

• the rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas

• development that combines housing and businesses in one area, somewhat like cities founded during colonial times.

• a variety of transit options such as buses, light rail, and subways

• involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats such as arable fields, pastures, and managed woods.

What is Pollution

What is infill?

• involves filling in empty or run-down parts of a city with new development.

• the small towns, farms, and open spaces that lie just beyond a city’s suburbs

• a variety of transit options such as buses, light rail, and subways

• development that combines housing and businesses in one area, somewhat like cities founded during colonial times.

What is a public transit system?

• a variety of transit options such as buses, light rail, and subways

• introduction of harmful materials into the environment.

• the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

• a choo choo train

What is the older part of a big city.

• Pollution

• Pizza

• Urban Core

• Infill

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