It causes all of the following:
- Dependency on oil causing oil, causing low resources
- Activity has decreased. 1 in every 3 children will now get diabetes
- Affordability is a really big problem now a days. A poll taken in 2005 said that a household making between $20,000-50,000 are spending 32% of their income on just transportation
In addition with the previous statements, urban sprawl will be taken down by new urbanism. The things urbanism is causing are going to become to big of problems. Urban Sprawl is a place like Glenwood Park in Altlanta. Glenwood park is a neighborhood using smartgrowth and green design. This is a neighborhood where the houses are within walking distance from everything.
Will the Glenwood Park lifestyle spread through America?
Yes it will! So far it looks like smart growth can fix all of the problems caused by urban sprawl and also have new benifits. For example there are now rainwater harvesting where they reuse water runoff.
Yes it will! So far it looks like smart growth can fix all of the problems caused by urban sprawl and also have new benifits. For example there are now rainwater harvesting where they reuse water runoff.
Above is a TED talk with Ellen Dunham-Jones about suburbia and smart growth.
I chose the topic of urban sprawl and new urbanism because when I watched the "Sprawlanta" video I was so intrigued. I'm very interested in the future. I can't believe some of the incredible ideas we come up with. I specifically picked smart growth neighborhoods because I think that living close enough to walk to just about everything you need is incredible. Along with all of the benefits that come with it like exercise and saving money.
My project relates to chapter two population, chapter four folk and popular culture, chapter nine development, and chapter 13 urban patterns.
chapter 2: In these neighborhoods you increase your activity level giving health benifits and hopefully decreasing the crude death rate.
chapter 4: I believe that new urbanism will spread along with it's ideas and it will become a new part of popular culture.
chapter 9: America is an MDC and we can create new projects like this
chapter 13: New urbanism uses smart growth and the greenbelt to defeat urban sprawl
chapter 2: In these neighborhoods you increase your activity level giving health benifits and hopefully decreasing the crude death rate.
chapter 4: I believe that new urbanism will spread along with it's ideas and it will become a new part of popular culture.
chapter 9: America is an MDC and we can create new projects like this
chapter 13: New urbanism uses smart growth and the greenbelt to defeat urban sprawl
Works cited:(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVXoB6x3vM&safe=active). n.d.
Dunham-Jones, Ellen. Interview. n.d.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/meet_glenwood_park_atlantas_ne.html. n.d.
http://www.google.com/search?q=google+images&safe=active&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OoCHU-abJ5aZqAaogYGYCg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1093&bih=515#q=glenwood+park&safe=active&tbm=isch. n.d.
http://www.terrain.org/unsprawl/17/. n.d.
Dunham-Jones, Ellen. Interview. n.d.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/meet_glenwood_park_atlantas_ne.html. n.d.
http://www.google.com/search?q=google+images&safe=active&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OoCHU-abJ5aZqAaogYGYCg&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1093&bih=515#q=glenwood+park&safe=active&tbm=isch. n.d.
http://www.terrain.org/unsprawl/17/. n.d.