Name ____________________________________

AP Human Geography-Pannell NB #
Unit 6-Cities & Urban Land-Use/Ch. 17 “Urban Challenges & Sustainability”
Topic 6.8 “Urban Sustainability” & 6.9 “Urban Data”

*Use Ch. 17 Topic 6.8 (pp. 417-421) and Topic 6.9 (pp. 422-424) of your textbook to answer the following clues.
Make sure to fill in the numbered boxes to answer the challenge question at the end of the puzzle.
 Name ____________________________________
AP Human Geography-Pannell NB #
Unit 6-Cities & Urban Land-Use/Ch. 17 “Urban Challenges & Sustainability”
Topic 6.8 “Urban Sustainability” & 6.9 “Urban Data”

*Use Ch. 17 Topic 6.8 (pp. 417-421) and Topic 6.9 (pp. 422-424) of your textbook to answer the following clues.
Make sure to fill in the numbered boxes to answer the challenge question at the end of the puzzle.

1. Using the earth’s resources while not causing permanent damage to the environment.
2. Focuses on city planning and transportation systems of an urban region to combat urban sprawl and
create a new vision for cities that are more sustainable and equitable.
3. Areas of undeveloped land around an urban area that are created to limit a city’s growth and preserve
farmland.
4. Cities that adopt policies to slow the outward spread of urban areas and place limits on building permits
in order to encourage a denser, more compact city.
5. Strategies developed in the 1990s to put smart growth into action within communities. (Use the
shortened version as your answer)
6. Neighborhoods that have a mix of homes and businesses.
7. The process of building up underused land of varying sizes.
8. Locates mixed-use residential and business communities near mass transit stops, resulting in a series of
more compact communities which decreases the need for automobiles.
9. Refers to a set of principles that supports sustainable urban designs.
10. Information that can be counted, measured, or sequenced by numeric value.
11. Contiguous geographic regions that function as the foundation of a census.
12. Census tracts are subdivided into these.
13. Information that is based primarily on surveys, field studies, photos, video, and interviews from people
who provide personal perceptions and meaningful descriptions.

Challenge Question: In addition to showing where people live, it gives a description of people’s income, age,
gender, ethnicity, race, family size, and other details.

* Use Ch. 17 Topic 6.8 (pp. 417-421) of your textbook to answer the following questions.

1. What are five (5) goals of smart-growth policies?

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2. (a) Greenbelts are coming found in what region of the world?

(b) What has motivated governments to embrace slow-growth policies?

 Name ____________________________________
AP Human Geography-Pannell NB #
Unit 6-Cities & Urban Land-Use/Ch. 17 “Urban Challenges & Sustainability”
Topic 6.8 “Urban Sustainability” & 6.9 “Urban Data”

3. (a) What are some strategies of new urbanism?

(b) Briefly describe a typical mixed-use neighborhood.

(c) New urbanism has succeeded in many communities in spite of what two (2) major obstacles?

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4. (a) For what reasons to many cities have areas of vacant or underdeveloped land of varying
sizes?

(b) How is the community of Civita, California an example of both urban infill and new
urbanism?

5. What are examples of micro-transport options in cities?

6. What conditions exist in livable communities?

7. What are two (2) examples of how cities adapt to their growing and evolving populations?

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8. What are three (3) criticisms of smart growth? Make sure to include one criticism directly
related to mass transit.

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 Name ____________________________________
AP Human Geography-Pannell NB #
Unit 6-Cities & Urban Land-Use/Ch. 17 “Urban Challenges & Sustainability”
Topic 6.8 “Urban Sustainability” & 6.9 “Urban Data”

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*Use Ch. 17 Topic 6.9 (pp. 422-424) of your textbook to answer the following questions.

9. For what two (2) primary reasons do people live in cities?

10. (a) Why is information about population composition important to governments?

(b) As it relates to cities, what purpose does quantitative data serve?

11. (a) A typical census tract in the United States consists of between _______ and _________
people.

(b) As it relates to cities, why is using the proper scale of data important?

(c) For what purpose could researchers and businesses potentially use data?

(d) For what purpose could merchants and business owners potentially use data?

(e) Why do geographers compare local data with that at the national scale?

12. (a) How do questions and study topics help those who gather information?

(b) Why is qualitative data important to geographers?

(c) How can geographers use both qualitative and quantitative data?

(d) What factors influence the quality of data collected by researchers?