Sustainable Cities Planning Quiz

Creating Sustainable Cities: Planning for Climate Change and Environmental Justice

• Climatopias are utopian urban designs that attempt to address climate change, created by architects and designers around the world.
• Environmental planning is an interdisciplinary field involving urban planning, geography, economics, and agriculture, which focuses on building sustainable communities.
• Sustainable development means using natural resources responsibly, promoting economic opportunities and environmental justice, and ensuring social equity.
• Zoning and other tools are often part of smart growth planning, which tries to control and direct the movement of sprawl or places on the outskirts of cities.
• Ecological design is an effort to build buildings and even whole cities to mimic nature.
• Urban planning is about relationships, so it's rarely a neutral act, and one approach to sustainable neighborhoods includes new urbanism.
• Sustainable cities are about planning for the future and reconciling the past, and retrofitting is just one tool we have as we think about effective ways to address climate change and atmospheric warming.
• Creating sustainable cities can't just be a part of our future. It also has to be part of our present, and that means citizens can get involved.
• Barcelona's labora coop is building off a collaborative housing model used in Denmark, Germany, and Uruguay that provides non-speculative housing.
• Groups of people are banding together to leverage their numbers and purchasing power to envision new ways to exchange goods and services that will allow for secure, healthy lives but with a smaller footprint.
• Planning our cities and neighborhoods, including our communities in rural spaces, is a community effort.
• As communities come together and define their neighborhood, they create the type of place they want their location and their future to be.

Sustainable Cities: Planning for the Future

• Climatopias are futuristic urban designs that address climate change.
• Environmental planning is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on building sustainable communities.
• Sustainable development involves using natural resources responsibly and promoting economic opportunities, environmental justice, and social equity.
• Sustainable neighborhoods can be created through smart growth planning, zoning, and ecological design.
• Planning for the future involves reconciling the past and creating tension between retrofits and fresh development.
• Retrofitting existing buildings and infrastructure can have a significant global impact and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Sustainable cities must prioritize the needs of all citizens, including vulnerable groups, and address issues such as pollution, water quality, and environmental justice.
• Citizens can get involved in creating sustainable communities through cooperatives and attending public planning meetings.
• Urban planning can create tension between what is good for the environment and what is good for the economy.
• New urbanism and gentrification can lead to inequitable access to economic opportunities and housing.
• Urban areas offer efficient access to services but create pressure and strain on resources.
• Sustainable cities must prioritize strong communities and consider what makes a city sustainable beyond just infrastructure.