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Answer the following questions in a 4th graders response in 2 sentences each
What is smart growth?
What is urban sprawl?
How are they different?
What is a smart city?
How can these elements or theories work together and work against each other?
How have cities in Maryland been impacted by Smart Plannig?
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What is smart growth?
Smart growth is a way to plan towns so people can live close to shops, schools, and buses. It saves farms and nature by building more where roads and services already exist.
What is urban sprawl?
Urban sprawl is when houses and stores spread out far across the countryside instead of staying near town. This makes people drive more, uses lots of land, and can hurt farms and forests.
How are they different?
Smart growth keeps new buildings near towns and protects open spaces, while urban sprawl spreads buildings out into fields and woods. Smart growth helps people walk or take buses, but sprawl usually makes people rely on cars.
What is a smart city?
A smart city uses technology like sensors and apps to make things work better, such as traffic lights, buses, and trash pickup. This can save time, energy, and money and make the city cleaner and safer.
How can these elements or theories work together and work against each other?
They work together when smart growth makes compact, walkable places and smart city tools help those places run smoothly with good transit and energy use. They can work against each other if technology is used without helping everyone or if limits on building make homes too expensive for many people.
How have cities in Maryland been impacted by Smart Planning?
In Maryland, smart planning rules have encouraged building near towns and helped protect farms, forests, and water. Places like Baltimore and suburbs such as Silver Spring and Bethesda have more apartments and shops near transit, better parks, and cleaner waterways because of these plans.
Smart growth is a way to plan towns so people can live close to shops, schools, and buses. It saves farms and nature by building more where roads and services already exist.
What is urban sprawl?
Urban sprawl is when houses and stores spread out far across the countryside instead of staying near town. This makes people drive more, uses lots of land, and can hurt farms and forests.
How are they different?
Smart growth keeps new buildings near towns and protects open spaces, while urban sprawl spreads buildings out into fields and woods. Smart growth helps people walk or take buses, but sprawl usually makes people rely on cars.
What is a smart city?
A smart city uses technology like sensors and apps to make things work better, such as traffic lights, buses, and trash pickup. This can save time, energy, and money and make the city cleaner and safer.
How can these elements or theories work together and work against each other?
They work together when smart growth makes compact, walkable places and smart city tools help those places run smoothly with good transit and energy use. They can work against each other if technology is used without helping everyone or if limits on building make homes too expensive for many people.
How have cities in Maryland been impacted by Smart Planning?
In Maryland, smart planning rules have encouraged building near towns and helped protect farms, forests, and water. Places like Baltimore and suburbs such as Silver Spring and Bethesda have more apartments and shops near transit, better parks, and cleaner waterways because of these plans.
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