Cities Are Sometimes Criticized for Representing an Unsustainable Type of Development

question 29

Multiple Choice

Cities are sometimes criticized for representing an unsustainable type of development because of their environmental demands and impacts. A counterargument, however, is that:

• A) industrialization goes hand in hand with urbanization
• B) Las Vegas is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States, yet it is located in a desert
• C) the urban half of the world's population lives on only 3 percent of Earth's land
• D) urban living often leads to rising levels of consumption

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Definitions:

Negative Feedback

A regulatory mechanism in which a stimulus causes an opposite output in order to maintain an optimal level of whatever is being regulated.

Density Dependent

Factors whose effects on the size or growth of the population vary with the population density.

Fecundity

The potential capacity of an individual to produce offspring.

Offspring

Biological children or descendants of parents, encompassing both singular and plural progeny.