AP HUG

Question 1

Know the activities in particular nodes for the multiple nuclei model

Answer 1

A port, a neighborhood business center, a university, an airport, and/or a park

Question 2

Know the three urban models and what each deals with

Answer 2

Concentric Zone model- considers that people have the same income and ethnic background, states that older houses are in inner rings while newer houses are in outer rings
Sector model- states that people with different incomes would live in different sectors
Multiple Nuclei model-states that people with same racial and ethnic background will live by each other

Question 3

What cities have underground CBD’s and why

Answer 3

Minneapolis, Montreal and Toronta have underground cities because of harsh weather

Question 4

Know the three kinds of consumer services in the CBD

Answer 4

Retailers with high thresholds, Retailers with high ranges, and Retailers serving CBD workers

Question 5

Likeliness to annex lands around city and why

Answer 5

In recent decades it has decreased because people prefer to make their own services instead of paying city taxes for them

Question 6

Know everything about megalopolis

Answer 6

It is a region that extends from Boston to Washington DC and contains many large cities, one large continuous urban complex, urban areas are separated but overlap at the periphery of urban areas

Question 7

Know the peripheral model and what ties it together

Answer 7

An urban area with an inner city surrounded by suburbs and service nodes/nuclei tied together by a beltway or ring road

Question 8

Know the percent of homeless people, children and other demographics

Answer 8

¼ of homeless people are children, the use of drug use has increased rapidly in inner cities, inner city neighborhoods have a high share of an area’s crime, and most crime victims are from minorities

Question 9

Know the supply of public housing and number of units needed

Answer 9

the supply of public housing decreased by 1 million while the number of households that needed low rent dwellings increased by 2 million

Question 10

Know what were the reasons for the rise of suburban development

Answer 10

Cheaper cars, Federal highway program, GI bill(gave veterans money to go to college), loan guarantees for housing, prefabricated construction methods(made making homes easier in suburbs) and demand for more space

Question 11

Know what new urbanism is designed to create

Answer 11

Mixed use development, pedestrian-friendly design, and created front porches and alleys(walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs)

Question 12

Know why some communities are gated, brah

Answer 12

For safety

Question 13

Know the term(s) that describes the spread of cities with the use of freeways

Answer 13

Urban sprawl

Question 14

Know what McMansions are and where they’re found

Answer 14

they are very large houses which all look the same and they are located in suburbs on the outer limits of the lot

Question 15

Know what type of people would live in gentrified/new urbanism areas

Answer 15

People with money and no kids, double income households without children

Question 16

Know what type of areas have been created due to blockbusting

Answer 16

Blockbusting is when realtors purposefully sell homes in a neighborhood at low prices to african americans and solicit whites in their neighborhoods to sell homes at low prices, it changes the ethnic composition of neighborhoods

Question 17

Know what shantytowns are and where they are found in the world

Answer 17

Unplanned developments of crude dwellings made out of scrap material, found in the outskirts of cities(usually poorer ones without zoning laws)

Question 18

Know the focal point of the SE Asian city

Answer 18

Ports

Question 19

Know the African city model and the uniqueness of it

Answer 19

It has 3 CBDs:periodic market, traditional, and colonial

Question 20

Know what you’d find in the periphery and the spine in the Latin American city X2

Answer 20

the periphery has high density shanty towns of extreme poverty, the spine is an extension of the cbd and has offices, shops, high class housing, restaurants, theatres, and parks.

Question 21

How are Brasilia, Canberra, and Washington D.C. similar

Answer 21

they are all planned capital cities, and each city was designed with specific urban planning principles in mind.

Question 22

Where would you find an edge city and know characteristics

Answer 22

Suburban downtowns, with office complexes and retail shopping centers, near key freeway intersections

Question 23

Know the idea of what is losing the dominant position in the multiple nuclei model

Answer 23

The CBD

Question 24

Know what has happened in the zone of transition in the concentric zone model

Answer 24

It transitions the city from the CBD to residential with some deterioration and light industry

Question 25

Know the characteristics of a primate city

Answer 25

more than 2 times larger than the 2nd biggest city, important culturally, economically, and politically

Question 26

Know what a hinterland is and does for the city

Answer 26

The surrounding service area of a city that includes villages and hamlets

Question 27

Know the rank-size rule and compute examples

Answer 27

2nd biggest city is ½ the size of the biggest city, 3rd biggest is ⅓ the size of the biggest city(the US, Canada, and Brazil)

Question 28

Know what site and situation deals with

Answer 28

Site is the absolute location(like climate), situation is about relative location(like roads and rivers going near and/or through the city)

Question 29

Know what a world city is and know examples

Answer 29

An urban center that is a major player in the global economy and is connected to other global cities(international company headquarters, global financial functions)

Question 30

Understand Christaller’s Central Place Theory and know the threshold and range

Answer 30

it is a model that explains the distribution and patterns of cities and towns based on their size Threshold-the minimum number of people needed to sustain a service. Range- the maximum distance consumers are willing to travel for a good/service

Question 31

Know what parts of the world have the smallest percent of people living in urban areas X2

Answer 31

China and India, 40%

Question 32

Know what an ethnic neighborhood is comprised of

Answer 32

An area where one or more ethnic groups is dominant, usually has cultural traits specific to that group

Question 33

Know what was essential for the first cities to exist

Answer 33

Fresh water, good climate, ability to grow crops, fresh soil

Question 34

Difference between boomburg and exurb

Answer 34

A boomburb is a rapidly growing suburban city with its own identity, an exurb is a settlement outside the suburbs that remains connected to the metro(usually with low population density, less goods, and larger lots

Question 35

Know the differences of the urban structure of the non-American cities and compare to European cities

Answer 35

European cities are more densely populated