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Why are cities often warmer than surrounding rural areas?

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  1. 1 Easy

    What urban model combined town living with a ring of greenbelt?

    Answer: Garden city

    Why: Letchworth in England became the first real-world garden city built to test Howard's vision in 1903.

  2. 2 Easy

    What effect explains why widening highways worsens traffic?

    Answer: Induced demand

    Why: Extra lanes temporarily ease driving times, which quickly attracts new motorists until the road clogs again.

  3. 3 Easy

    Which capital city was planned in the shape of an airplane?

    Answer: Brasília

    Why: Brasília places government ministries along the central fuselage and residential superblocks along its wings.

  4. 4 Easy

    What ring of open land surrounds a city to stop sprawl?

    Answer: Greenbelt

    Why: London enacted its green belt in 1938 to preserve open farmland and halt unbroken suburban growth.

  5. 5 Easy

    What term describes the rapid spread of cities outward?

    Answer: Urban sprawl

    Why: Urban sprawl typically accelerates when single-family zoning forces neighborhoods to spread across vast land areas.

  6. 6 Easy

    What term describes abandoned, polluted industrial land?

    Answer: Brownfield

    Why: Brownfields contrast with greenfields because their past industrial use requires environmental cleanup first.

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