Chapter 1

Question 1

The UN predicts that by 2050 about ____ of the planet’s population will live in cities.

Answer 1

two thirds

Question 2

100 years ago, only __% of the planet’s population lived in cities

Answer 2

14%

Question 3

The first time more than 50% of world’s population lived in urban areas

Answer 3

mid 1990’s

Question 4

Inter-metropolitan/Urban systems

Answer 4

Highlights relations among a system or group of cities at a regional, national or global level.

• system of centers

Question 5

Intrametropolitan

Answer 5

Highlights internal locational arrangements of humans, activities and institutions within metropolitan areas.

• activities within a center
• How is space structured within cities?

Question 6

Spatial interaction

Answer 6

volume of flows and linkages over space among/within cities

Question 7

Site

Answer 7

physical character of a location

Question 8

Situation

Answer 8

where a site is located relative to other locations

Question 9

Epistemology

Answer 9

the theory of knowledge, particularly with regard to its methods, validity, and scope

Question 10

Positivism

Answer 10

• epistemology of the scientific method
• objectivity
• “one reality”
• knowledge is thought to be cumulative
• knowledge is thought to have a liberating impact on society

Question 11

Structuralism

Answer 11

• marxism
• our world cannot be directly observed
• Our world must be understood in terms of larger, overarching structures
• Everything we do, how we think, feel and perceive, is influenced by underlying structures.
• there are deep structural realities that resist easy measurement
• urbanism can only be understood through deep understanding of capitalism in various historical forms

Question 12

Humanism

Answer 12

• focused on meaning and experience
• focus on attitudes, perceptions, values towards place and landscape
• anthropocentric
• positivism - too scientific in nature

Question 13

Distance Decay

Answer 13

reduction in the amount of movement/spatial interaction between two places the further they are apart

Question 14

(world population) the mid-1990’s marked what?

Answer 14

The first time more than 50% of the world’s population lived in urban areas

Question 15

Metropolitan Area

Answer 15

an extended form of urban area that consists of a large politically defined central city plus all of the surrounding areas that contain suburbs economically interconnected with the central city.

Question 16

Regional approach to urban geography

Answer 16

A study of a limited number of places over a larger range of topics or attributes

Question 17

Topical approach to urban geography

Answer 17

A study of one or a few characteristics over a wide range of places

Question 18

Four epistemological approaches to the study of urban geogaphy

Answer 18

1. Positivism
2. Structuralism
3. Humanism
4. Poststructuralism

Question 19

Poststructuralism

Answer 19

• ultimate generalizable truth cannot be found
• real “truth” may (or may not even) exist, but either way it is unattainable
• goal is not to produce truths that operate everywhere in the same way
• realities are socially produced

Question 20

Urban Geography

Answer 20

The geographical study of urban space and urban ways of being.

Question 21

Geography

Answer 21

The study of interdependence and interaction among geographic areas, natural systems, processes, society and cultural activities over space. A spatial science.

Question 22

Population will peak in ____

Answer 22

2100 at 11.2 billion

Question 23

Industrial Revolution

Answer 23

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

Question 24

Paradigm

Answer 24

World view at the time (collective understanding)

Question 25

Fertility Rate in Canada

Answer 25

1.8

Question 26

Rural-Urban Continuum

Answer 26

Wilderness
Farm
Hamlet
Low-Density Exurb
Village (1k)
Small Town(3k)
Inner-Ring Suburb
Large Town (9k)
Small city (10k)
City (10k-15k)
Large City
Major City
Manhattan

Question 27

How many people make up a city

Answer 27

10,000 people. (nelson)

Question 28

Most sustainable urban dense area in the world

Answer 28

Manhattan