Facing the Problem of Overpopulation

Additional Resources

• Problems in MDCs

  • read Section 10.2 and 10.3 on pages 257 - 265

• Land Conversion and Social Disruption

  • 3 responses

  • 2 responses

• Transportation and Urban Development

  • 3 methods of transportation in urban areas

  • Motor Vehicles

  • Cycling/Walking

  • Mass Transit

• Making Urban Areas more Livable

  • doing maintenance and repairs

  • revitalize existing

    •  gentrification - definition    

    • urban homesteading -definition

  • revitalize public housing

    • 3 ways to solve the problem of poor public housing

  •  create urban enterprise zones

    • 5 problems with this

  • preserving urban open spaces

    • 5 methods

      • example of open

      • spaces

      • Greenbelt-definition

      • urban growth

      • boundary-definition

      • cluster development- definition

      • greenways- definition

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