Across
- 3. A public declaration of intentions and visions for the future, often written by urban planners to describe a better city
- 4. A Thai megacity currently facing major challenges with air pollution, traffic congestion, and sinking infrastructure
- 5. A "City" concept that uses permeable surfaces and green parks to naturally absorb and filter monsoon floodwater
- 7. Factors such as better job opportunities, higher wages, and improved healthcare that attract people to move to a city
- 9. The basic physical systems of a city, including roads, transport, and water, which often struggle to keep up with rapid growth
- 11. The settlement model, often shown as a pyramid, that ranks living areas from isolated homes up to megacities
- 12. A verb meaning to reduce the severity, seriousness, or negative effects of a specific urban hazard or problem
- 13. A social issue in megacities where there are significant gaps between wealthy areas and informal settlements
- 15. An acronym used to measure sustainability by looking at Social, Economic, and Environmental factors
Down
- 1. The practice of developing a city to be environmentally friendly, economically fair, and a great place to live for the future
- 2. A U.S. city that was once the "world’s car capital" but later filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in history
- 6. An academic term for an extended urban area formed by several towns and cities merging together
- 8. Factors such as drought, poverty, or a lack of schools that force people to leave their rural homes
- 10. The process where an increasing percentage of a population lives in towns and cities instead of the countryside
- 14. A specific classification for a city that has a population of more than ten million people