Chapter 11 Flashcards
geo (38 cards)
What is the Basic Sector?
Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement, bringing in new money to the local economy.
What are Brownfields?
Abandoned sites, usually former industrial or commercial properties, that may be contaminated by pollutants, complicating redevelopment.
What is the Central Business District (CBD)?
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered; the heart of economic and commercial activity.
What is a Central City?
The original core city of a metropolitan area, surrounded by suburbs.
What is a Central Place?
A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
What is Central Place Theory?
A geographic model developed by Walter Christaller explaining the size, spacing, and distribution of settlements (central places) based on their provision of goods and services.
Who is Walter Christaller?
The geographer who developed Central Place Theory, explaining the spatial distribution of cities based on economic functions.
What is a City?
A large urban settlement with significant population, density, and specialized functions, serving as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
A structural model of cities proposed by E.W. Burgess, showing urban land use in rings radiating outward from the CBD, each ring representing different types of land use.
What is a Conurbation?
An extensive urban area formed by the merging of several cities and their suburbs, often forming a megalopolis (like BosWash).
What is an Economic Base?
A community’s collection of basic industries, which drive economic growth by exporting goods/services and bringing money into the city.
What is an Edge City?
A large node of office and retail activities located on the outskirts of a metropolitan area, near major highways.
What is an Exurb?
A residential area beyond the suburbs, often rural-like but inhabited by commuters who work in the central city.
What is the Galactic City Model?
A post-industrial city model showing a decentralized city with a central CBD surrounded by edge cities, often connected by beltways.
What is Gentrification?
The process of wealthier residents moving into deteriorated urban neighborhoods, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, but also displacing poorer residents.
What is the Hierarchy of Central Places?
A ranking of settlements (villages, towns, cities) according to their size and economic functions (from small, low-order places to large, high-order places).
What is a Hinterland?
The market area surrounding an urban center, drawing people to purchase goods and services.
What is a Metacity?
A large-scale urban area with over 20 million people, increasingly common in developing regions.
What is a Metropolitan Area?
A functional region consisting of a central city and its surrounding suburbs that are linked economically and socially.
What is the Multiple-Nuclei Model?
A model by Harris and Ullman showing cities with more than one center (node) around which different types of activity cluster.
What is the Multiplier Effect?
The expansion of a city’s economic base, where a new basic job leads to additional nonbasic jobs (like schools, restaurants).
What is a Network City?
Cities that are linked by transportation and communication systems, allowing them to share functions and resources without merging.
What is New Urbanism?
An urban design movement that promotes walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods to combat suburban sprawl and foster community interaction.
What is the Nonbasic (Service) Sector?
Industries that sell their products primarily to the local community, recycling money within the city.
