Chapter 1- Intro + General Terms

Question 1

Landscape interpretation

ODIIE

Answer 1

-Observe

-Describe

-Inquire

-Interpret

-Extend

Question 2

Observe (Landscape interpretation)

Answer 2

Make a list of the things you see

Question 3

Describe (Landscape interpretation)

Answer 3

What activities are taking place? What is the setting?

Question 4

Inquire (Landscape interpretation)

Answer 4

What questions arise in your mind

Question 5

Interpret (Landscape interpretation)

Answer 5

What relationships are there in the landscape?

Question 6

Extend (Landscape interpretation)

Answer 6

What sources can you find that will help you understand the context?

Question 7

Metacity

Answer 7

Over 20 million population

Question 8

Megacity

Answer 8

Over 10 million population

Question 9

Alpha world cities

10

Answer 9

London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore

Question 10

What are world cities?

Answer 10

Cities that are command and control hubs of the global economy

Question 11

When did the world reach 50% urban population

Answer 11

2007

Question 12

Resilience

Answer 12

Ability of a system to recover from shocks

Question 13

World population

Answer 13

7.6 billion

Question 14

Percent of urban population

Answer 14

55%

Question 15

Urban population

Answer 15

4.2 billion

Question 16

Concentric Zone Model (Burgess model)

Answer 16

Cities residentially segregated based on class. (Draw)

Question 17

The Sector Model

Answer 17

Cities grow in sectors along transportation corridors giving land-use patterns a directional bias (Draw)

Question 18

Multiple Nuclei Model

Answer 18

Cities grow around several distinct nodes (Draw)

Question 19

Inverse Concentric Zone Model

Answer 19

Preindustrial cities (Draw)

Question 20

Conurbation

Answer 20

As urban areas expand they engulf smaller cities and towns

Question 21

Galactic metropolis

Answer 21

Where transportation and communications technologies create and reinforce connections among seemingly separate areas

Question 22

Urban agglomeration

Answer 22

As urban areas expand the engulf smaller cities and towns

Question 23

Rank size rule

Answer 23

Population of a city should be equal to the country’s largest city divided by its rank

Question 24

Colonial city

Answer 24

Cities in foreign lands that were dominated by European imperial powers and were mostly commercial

Question 25

Four stages of urbanization

Answer 25

Primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary

Question 26

Industrial city

Answer 26

City whose economy is based on the production of manufactured goods

Question 27

Preindustrial city

Answer 27

A city that was founded and grew before the 19th and 20th centuries

Question 28

Site

Answer 28

The physical characteristics of the place where a city originated

Question 29

Situation

Answer 29

Relative location of a city and its connectedness with other places.

Question 30

Urban area

Answer 30

A city and its suburbs

Question 31

Central place theory

Answer 31

Seeks to explain the number, size and range of market services in a commercial system or human settlements in a residential system
The largest cities are surrounded by medium cities that are surrounded by small cities

Question 32

Metropolitan area

Answer 32

A central city with all surrounding territory including urban and suburban

Question 33

Urbanization

Answer 33

When work gets detached from the soil with trade, manufacturing, and service provision dominating the economy

Question 34

When is an area considered Urban?

Answer 34

Economy is no longer tied to agriculture or primary activities

Question 35

Post-industrial city

Answer 35

Economy is not tied to manufacturing but instead high service sector employment

Question 36

Megalopolis

Answer 36

The joining of metropolitan areas at a regional scale eg Washington to Philadelphia to New York to Boston in a line

Question 37

Planned cities

Answer 37

Company towns, or new green or administrative cities (Brasilia, Islamabad, Aroville, Amaravati)

Question 38

Special administrative regions

Answer 38

Autonomous governance unit

Question 39

Special economic zone

Answer 39

An area where business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country