Quiz #3

This quiz covers Episodes 7 & 8: Greening Forest City, The Future of Forest City. Please re‑answer questions until you have achieved a perfect score.

 

1. Greening Forest City requires Country Garden to:

 Follow through on its DEIA environmental commitments
 Include more parks and green spaces in Forest City
 Manage its energy, water use, and transportation systems in a sustainable fashion
 B and C
 All of the above

 

2. Country Garden’s commitment to sustainability:

 Is economically unrealistic to maintain
 Is necessary to attract long term buyers
 Cuts into Country Garden’s profits
 Cannot be prioritized when there is a need to generate financial returns

 

3. The Environmental Impact Assessment:

 Provides the developer with an opportunity to work jointly with all interested stakeholders
 Is a tool used by governments to delay a project
 Clearly states the need for a project
 Creates more costs for the developer
 All of the above

 

4. Creating shared value:

 Is possible for small scale developers
 Is possible by actively engaging key stakeholders early on in the process
 Is possible for not-for-profit developers
 Is fine in theory, but difficult in reality
 All of the above

 

5. The most important lesson of the Forest City case is:

 The cost of trying to avoid preparing an EIA can be greater than the cost of completing one at the outset of a large development project
 Gated mega-projects are the way to go in Asia
 Development decision-making should be left to local government
 Get as much done as quickly as possible if you think a real estate project is going to be controversial
 Large-scale real estate projects are inevitably going to displace certain people