Multiple Choice Questions

housing within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures, part of a slum
  • sprawl
  • edge city
  • squatter settlement
  • urbanization
wealthier people moving into urban districts to fix up older buildings in low income neighborhoods to make them more tourist friendly and attract income, BAD FOR INNER CITY DWELLERS W/O MONEY:(
  • urbanization
  • gentrification
  • redlining
  • blockbusting
a "high class" area of a city
  • uptown
  • Hoyt
  • megacity
  • zoning
an urban design movement that promotes walkable neighborhoods with a variety of housing job types; ex: Seaside, Fl
  • central place theory
  • gentrification
  • new urbanism
  • suburbanization
creators of the multiple nuclei model
  • Harris and Ullman
  • Burgess
  • Gravity Model
  • Hoyt
countries with oil industries are highly nucleated, countries without oil are rural and spread out
  • sub saharan Africa city model
  • North Africa and Middle east city model
  • Lewis
  • Borchert's Epoch's of Transportation
neighborhoods of gathered ethnicities that make up sectors of cities, separated
  • ethnic segregation
  • eminent domain
  • mixed use development
  • latin american city model
a part of a city occupied by a minority group, usually black or latino
  • ghetto
  • megacity
  • greenfield
  • site
city that exhibits a mixture of indigenous, colonial, and globalized influence
  • Sector model
  • primate city
  • hybrid city
  • world city
use of scare tactics to promote switch of racial groups in a neighborhood
  • blockbusting
  • redlining
  • gentrification
  • urbanization
a settlement that provides goods and services for it's residents
  • primate city
  • concentric zone model
  • central place
  • hinterland
1500-1800s, cities grew with merchant families who ran the government and built infrastructure and fancy buildings
  • eminent domain
  • mercantile era
  • urbanization
  • urban hierarchy
the opposition to something undesirable in one's neighborhood, poor communities have less say on what goes on
  • NIMBY
  • SITUATION
  • SLUM
  • DISAMENITY
abandoned industrial districts from the 20th century
  • urbanization
  • rust belt
  • threshold
  • brownfield
the spread of low density land use in a city because of rapid urbanization
  • sprawl
  • gentrification
  • redlining
  • zoning
the percentage of people living in an urban place
  • central business district
  • new urbanism
  • concentric zone model
  • level of urbanization
a principal centre of global economic power that significantly influences the world's business
  • edge city
  • hybrid city
  • world city
  • primate city
the ability of a town or a city to support sizable population who make a living from specialized, non primary sector activities
  • level of urbanization
  • functional complexity
  • agglomeration
  • threshold
large disamenity sector, thick strip of commercial activity close to upper class
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  • latin american city model
  • level of urbanization
  • ethnic segregation
  • mixed use development
cities that blend a use of residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial uses
  • mixed use development
  • multiple nuclei model
  • zone of abandonment
  • galactic city model
refusing to offer home loans on the basis of ethnicity of a neighborhood
  • gentrification
  • blockbusting
  • edge city
  • redlining
a city with 10 million or more residents
  • primate city
  • urbanization
  • edge city
  • megacity
land previously used for commercial/industrial uses but became contaminated or deteriorated
  • greenfield
  • hinterland
  • brownfield
  • zone of abandonment
city model with colonial section, market section, and indigenous section, surrounded by ethnic neighborhoods
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  • sub saharan Africa city model
  • latin american city model
  • urban sustainability
  • primate city
the basic physical organization and structures of a place or facility for the operation of a society or enterprise
  • Gravity Model
  • primate city
  • rank size rule
  • infrastructure
a piece of land as a potential industrial site, not previously developed or polluted
  • greenfield
  • megalopolis
  • redlining
  • edge city
the annual percentage increase in urban populaltion
  • level of urbanization
  • sub saharan Africa
  • rate of urban growth
  • urbanization
a series of central places ranked on the basis of their threshold, range, and market area (functional complexity); ALL CITIES ARE INTERCONNECTED
  • urban hierarchy
  • hinterland
  • urbanization
  • rank size rule
creator of Urban Realms model
  • Vance
  • Hoyt
  • range
  • Harris and Ullman
the megalopolis that is in the east coast of the US
  • ethnic segregation
  • decentralization
  • centralization
  • Boshwash corridor
laws that regulate land use and development
  • eminent domain
  • redlining
  • blockbusting
  • zoning
a new downtown consisting of clusters of business activity that develops in the suburbs, like galactic model
  • central business district
  • edge city
  • megacity
  • primate city
creator of galactic city model
  • Lewis
  • North Africa and Middle east city model
  • Harris and Ullman
  • Burgess
the distance people will travel to purchase a good or service
  • range
  • urbanization
  • disamenity
  • sprawl
creator of the sector model
  • Burgess
  • Harris And Ullman
  • Christaller
  • Hoyt
a spatial theory in urban geography that attempts to explain the reasons behind the distribution patterns, size, and number of cities and towns around the world
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  • Concentric Zone Model
  • Gravity Model
  • Central Place Theory
  • Rank Size Rule
a massive urban complex created by converging metropolitan areas
  • central place
  • megalopolis
  • urbanization
  • redlining
minimum # of people required to support a business
  • disamenity
  • boomburg
  • ghetto
  • threshold
creator of Central Place theory
  • Christaller
  • Burgess
  • disamenity
  • blockbusting
least urban populated world region of the world
  • Harris and Ullman
  • sub saharan Africa city model
  • sub saharan Africa
  • suburbanization
the trade area served by the central place
  • threshold
  • hinterland
  • range
  • central place
clustering of activities in an area, which shapes the central city and suburban location
  • agglomeration
  • range
  • centralization
  • infrastructure
a pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement; bigger the city, smaller rank it is
  • primate city
  • rank size rule
  • central place theory
  • gravity model
trade route from central Asia to Europe
  • decentralization
  • situation
  • rust belt
  • silk road
a model that explains how urbanization and the layout of cities are affected by new innovative modes of transportation, (sail wagon, iron horse, steel rail, auto air)
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  • sub saharan Africa city model
  • multiple nuclei model
  • Borchert's Epoch's of Transportation
  • Sector model
the lack of desirable features in a place or city
  • urbanization
  • megacity
  • hybrid city
  • disamenity
more populous places and places that are closer together have a greater attraction, (population 1 * population 2)/distance squared
  • Primate City
  • Gravity Model
  • Multiple Nuclei Model
  • Central Place
highly coastal cities based on trade
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  • burgess
  • southeast Asia city model
  • edge city
  • concentric zone model
model that assumes that cities have highway, the distribution of social classes is divided into wedges
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  • central place
  • Sector model
  • concentric zone model
  • galactic city model
the authority of the government to take private property when doing so serves public interest
  • gentrification
  • situation
  • eminent domain
  • agglomeration
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