Ch. 13

Question 1

Where are the activities in particular nodes for the multiple nuclei model?

Answer 1

Port, a neighborhood business center, a university, an airport, and a park.

Question 2

What does the Concentric Zone Model deal with?

Answer 2

Urban growth in rings, city grows outward from a CBD, looks like a bullseye. ZONES: CBD, factory zone, working class, middle class, suburbs.

Question 3

What does the Sector Model deal with?

Answer 3

Cities growing in wedges/sectors along transport routes, with certain areas (like industry or wealthy housing) growing in specific directions.

Question 4

What does the Multiple Nuclei Model deal with?

Answer 4

Cities with multiple CBDs and specialized zones (business centers, industrial zone, airport hub), common in large modern cities.

Question 5

Which cities have underground CBDs?

Answer 5

Minneapolis, Toronto, and Montreal.

Question 6

What are the three kinds of consumer services in the CBD?

Answer 6

Retailers with high thresholds, retailers with high range, retailers that serve people working in the CBD.

Question 7

Why are cities less likely to annex peripheral land?

Answer 7

Residents prefer to organize their own services rather than pay city taxes for them.

Question 8

What is a megalopolis?

Answer 8

A continuous urban complex formed when multiple metropolitan areas grow and merge together. Key features include urban sprawl, shared economy, infrastructure, and commuting zones.

Question 9

What does the peripheral model consist of?

Answer 9

An urban area with an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and service nodes tied together by a beltway or ring road.

Question 10

What is the percentage of homeless people and children in the U.S.?

Answer 10

Several million people are homeless, with ¼ of homeless people being children.

Question 11

What happened to the supply of public housing between 1980 and 2010?

Answer 11

Supply dropped by 1 million, while the number of people needing low rent housing increased by 2 million.

Question 12

What were the reasons for the rise of suburban development?

Answer 12

Desire for more space, highways improved commuting, GI Bill provided loans for WWII veterans.

Question 13

What is new urbanism designed to create?

Answer 13

Walkable cities with mixed-use development, reducing car dependency.

Question 14

Why are some communities gated?

Answer 14

For the safety of wealthy residents.

Question 15

What term describes the spread of cities using freeways?

Answer 15

Urban sprawl.

Question 16

What are McMansions?

Answer 16

Super-sized and similar looking houses found in suburban areas.

Question 17

What type of people would live in gentrified/new urbanism areas?

Answer 17

Double income males with no children.

Question 18

What areas have been created due to blockbusting?

Answer 18

Ethnic neighborhoods or ghettos.

Question 19

What are shantytowns?

Answer 19

Slums found in the outer city.

Question 20

What is the focal point of the SE Asian city?

Answer 20

colonial Port zone, with no CBD.

Question 21

What is unique about the African city model?

Answer 21

It has 3 CBDs: Traditional, colonial, and market area.

Question 22

What would you find in the periphery and spine of the Latin American city?

Answer 22

Rich residential areas.

Question 23

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

Answer 23

All are planned cities with organized layouts and symbolic architecture, and all are capital cities.

Question 24

Where would you find an edge city?

Answer 24

Usually near interstate highways, away from CBDs, retail and office based.

Question 25

What is losing its dominant position in the multiple nuclei model?

Answer 25

CBD. | Central Business District

Question 26

What has happened in the zone of transition in the concentric zone model?

Answer 26

The zone of transition has become smaller.

Question 27

What are the characteristics of a primate city?

Answer 27

More than 2x bigger than the second largest city.

Question 28

What is a hinterland?

Answer 28

The area surrounding a city that supplies it with goods, services, and labor.

Question 29

What is the rank-size rule?

Answer 29

Indicates that the population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.

Question 30

What do site and situation refer to?

Answer 30

Site refers to absolute location, while situation refers to relative location.

Question 31

What is a world city?

Answer 31

A city that plays a key role in the global economy, with international influence. Examples include NYC, London, and Tokyo.

Question 32

What does Christaller’s Central Place Theory describe?

Answer 32

The spatial patterns of urban and outlying areas based on the flow of goods and services. Threshold is the minimum population needed to support a service range is the distance people are willing to travel for goods.

Question 33

What parts of the world have the smallest percent of people living in urban areas?

Answer 33

Semi-periphery regions.

Question 34

What is an ethnic neighborhood?

Answer 34

A neighborhood where an ethnic group makes up the majority.

Question 35

What was essential for the first cities to exist?

Answer 35

Food, water, fertile soil, labor specialization, and labor system.

Question 36

What are the differences between the urban structures of non-American cities and European cities?

Answer 36

Non-American cities often have high population density in the center, mixed land use, informal settlements, and grow over time. European cities have a historic core, wealthier residents closer to the center, and focus on walkability.

Question 37

What is a Boomburg?

Answer 37

A rapidly growing suburban city with 100,000+ people that feels suburban.

Question 38

What is an Exurb?

Answer 38

An area beyond the suburbs, often rural, where people commute to the city.

Question 39

What is telecommuting?

Answer 39

When a person works from home or remotely instead of going to a physical office.