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urban planning that avoids urban sprawl and focuses on long term implications with sustainable design initiatives and guides development into more convenient patterns and into areas where infrastructure allows growth to be sustained over the long term
smart growth policy that creates walk-able, mixed land use neighborhoods with commercial and residential area
classifying land and identifying the types of activities that are permitted e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural
residential areas characterized by extreme poverty with shelters constructed of found materials (scrap wood, etc.) that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned or rented by its occupants with little or no access to water, sewage, garbage removal, or education
regional planning efforts, remediation and redevelopment of brownfields, establishment of urban growth boundaries (e.g. greenbelts) and farmland protection policies
land use patterns in which land is occupied by residential units that include multi-unit hosing such as high-rise buildings and contain the highest people per geographic unit
land use pattern meant for a small number of residential homes that include a lot of open space and contain the feast people per geographical unit
managing suburban sprawl, sanitation needs, climate change, air and water quality standards, the ecological footprints of cities and energy use
land use patterns that includes a mix of commercial, residential, office and entertainment space centers around or located near public transport; dense, walkable, mixed use of development near transit that attracts people to connect to communities
food that is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed, often accompanied by a social structure and supply chain different from the large-scale supermarket scale
refers to the way governmental institutions are dispersed between many local agencies including state, county, city and neighborhood levels
the restoration of deteriorated urban areas by wealthier (mostly middle income) people who move into, renovate, and restore housing and sometimes businesses
planning ordinances that provide affordable housing to people with low to moderate incomes
system regulating the rights to ownership and control and wage of land
the idea that a city can meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs in terms of economic, environmental and social impact
the redevelopment of areas within an urban area, typically neighborhoods in economic decline
land use patterns in which residential units include multi-unit housing, such as townhomes as well as single-unit housing
reflect and share the city's culture, technological capabilities, cycles of development, and infilling (development of vacant areas within existing urban areas)
areas with lack of jobs, declining land values and falling demand that cause people to leave and business to close
measure of people's ability to pay for services without financial hardship (health services, infrastructure)