1. Land Use Planning - Goals
Discuss land use planning
Explain the importance of transportation choices
Differentiate green building from traditional building

2. Sustainable Cities

3. Land Use Planning
Land Use Planning: determining in advance how land will be used
Where do we put houses, schools, businesses, roads, factories, etc.
What land should be left open?

4. Land Use Planning
City planners attempt to design cities that both work well and look and feel appealing.
Zoning: Classification of land areas for different types of development and land use
An area can be mixed use or single use.
Involves restrictions on the use of private land

5. Land Use Plan

6. Infrastructure
Infrastructure: all the things we build to support living
Buildings
Roads
Sewers
Water Treatment Plants
Power Plants
Environmental/ societal costs?

7. Smart Growth
Focuses on economic and environmental approaches to avoiding sprawl
Builds “up,” not “out”
Maintains open spaces by redeveloping existing urban areas, waterfronts, and industrial sites

8. Smart Growth
Seeks to design neighborhoods that minimize the need to drive
Requires good public transportation systems

11. Transportation

12. Smart Growth: Transportation
Public transportation a key factor in the quality of urban life Buses, subways, trains more efficient, less polluting than cars Cities encourage mass transit with fuel taxes, vehicle taxes, rewarding carpoolers, and encouraging bicycle and bus use.

13. Explain what this graph shows

14. Busses Advantages Disadvantages More flexible than rail system
Can be rerouted as needed
Cost less to develop and maintain than heavy-rail system
Can greatly reduce car use and pollution
Can lose money because they need low fares to attract riders
Often get caught in traffic unless operating in express lanes
Commit riders to transportation schedules
Noisy

15. Trains Advantages Disadvantages More energy efficient than cars
Produce less air pollution than cars
Require less land than roads and parking areas for cars
Cause fewer injuries and deaths than cars
Reduce car congestion in cities
Expensive to build and maintain
Cost effective only along a densely populated narrow corridor
Commit riders to transportation schedules
Can cause noise and vibration for nearby residents

16. Bicycles
Advantages
Disadvantages
Affordable
Produce no
pollution
Quiet
Require little
parking space
Easy to
maneuver in
traffic
Take few
resources to
make
Very energy
efficient
Provide exercise
Little protection
in an accident
Do not protect
riders from
bad weather
Not practical for
trips longer than
8 kilometers
(5 miles)
Can be tiring
(except for electric
bicycles)
Lack of secure bike
parking

17. Did You Know? Paris, France removed 200,000 parking spaces to encourage the use of public transportation within the city.

18. Bike Parking Garage Netherlands
Bike lanes in NYC

19. Green Building
The goals of a green building are to save energy and resources without sacrificing people’s comfort.

21. Land Use - Review
Discuss land use planning
Explain the importance of transportation choices
Differentiate green building from traditional building

22. Section 3 Quiz
1) Which of the following is a principle of smart growth?
protecting wildlife habitats
B. focusing development outside of existing urban centers
C. creating neighborhoods best suited for cars
D. building up, not out

23. 2) Which form of transportation uses the most energy per passenger-mile?
commuter rail
automobile
bus
D. heavy rail

24. 3) One of the results of green building design is reduced
use of mass transit.
B. energy bills.
sprawl around major cities.
D. personal space and comfort.

25. 4) Which statement about sustainable cities is true. A
4) Which statement about sustainable cities is true? A. They can help improve the standard of living for residents. B. No major cities have made significant progress toward sustainability yet. C. They are only successful in the developed world. D. They often help encourage sprawl.

26. 5) Transportation systems, communications systems, water services, power supplies, and schools are all examples of
infrastructure.
rural areas.
ecological footprints.
land use.

27. Short Answer
6) Propose a how a city government could encourage the use of bicycles.

28. Short Answer
7) What are two ways governments can encourage the use of mass transit?

29. 8) Summarize the main idea of this graph in one sentence.