Chapter 15-16

Question 1

Central business District/Downtown

Answer 1

home to business services, very little housing

Question 2

City

Answer 2

Where people live with a population larger than a town

Question 3

Urban Area

Answer 3

The city and its suburbs

Question 4

Metropoltian

Answer 4

includes the city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

Question 5

Urbanization

Answer 5

urban growth and development, result of the neolithic revolution

Question 6

Earliest city

Answer 6

Uruk, 4500 B.C.E, banks of the euphrates rivers (fertile cresent)

Question 7

Urbanized area

Answer 7

population of 50,000+

Question 8

Urban cluster

Answer 8

2,500-49,999

Question 9

Site

Answer 9

The exact location of a city, where you can find it on a map

Question 10

Site factors

Answer 10

landforms, climate, availability of water, soil quality, and natural resources of the land

Question 11

Situation

Answer 11

Where a city is in relation to its surroundings

Question 12

Situation factors

Answer 12

refers to the connections between its site and other sites (easy access to trading partners, resources, and global markets)

Question 13

Urban sprawl

Answer 13

spreading of the urban area in an unplanned and uncontrolled way

Question 14

Edge city

Answer 14

type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city

Question 15

Boomburbs

Answer 15

suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

Question 16

Megacities

Answer 16

Cities with 10 million or more residents

Question 17

Metacities

Answer 17

Sprawling urban areas with more than 20 million residents

Question 18

Suburbanization

Answer 18

Movement of upper/middle class people from urban core areas to surrounding outskirts

Question 19

Megalopolis

Answer 19

Many cities all connected together

Question 20

City Population

Answer 20

Around 100,000+

Question 21

Town

Answer 21

bigger than a village, a few thousand people

Question 22

Village

Answer 22

A little bigger, but less than 1000 people

Question 23

Hamlet

Answer 23

Very small, just a few families

Question 24

Megalopolis examples

Answer 24

(Boston, NYC, Washington D.C.), (Milwaukee, Chicago, Pittsburg), (Tokiado- Toyko to Yokohama)

Question 25

Gravity Model

Answer 25

Predicts the degree of interaction and the probability of mobility between two places

Question 26

Rank Size Rule

Answer 26

Using the population of the country’s largest city as a baseline (2nd largest city is 1/2 the largest, 3rd is 1/3, and so on)

Question 27

Primate City Rule

Answer 27

The most populated city is known as a primate city and it far exceeds, in population size and influence, the country’s next largest city

Question 28

Range

Answer 28

the distance that someone is willing to travel for a good or service

Question 29

Threshold

Answer 29

the number of people needed to support a certain good or service (the type of person matters)

Question 30

Central Place Theory

Answer 30

Explains the hierarchical patterns in number, size, and locations of cities and other settlements

Question 31

Hinterland

Answer 31

market area (typically drawn as a hexagon)

Question 32

World city/Global city

Answer 32

A city that has influence not just within its region, but around the world

Question 33

Examples of world cities

Answer 33

New york, London, Paris, Tokyo

Question 34

Globalization

Answer 34

the growing connection between the world's economies, cultures, and populations

Question 35

Multinational corporations like to cluster in large cities to create large networks to facilitate their services

Question 36

Primate cities make

Answer 36

Uneven distribution of people and services

Question 37

Bid-Rent theory

Answer 37

a theory that explains how land value determines urban land use

Question 38

Burgess-Concentric Zone Model

Answer 38

Made by Ernest Burgess, starts with the CBD, then zone 2 is old rundown homes, zone 3 is working class, zone 4 is middle class, and zone 5 is upper class

Question 39

Hoyt-Sector Model

Answer 39

Homer Hoyt, Urban areas grow out in sectors or wedges, low-income families will live near industrial areas, high-income families will live on the complete opposite side than industry

Question 40

Harris & Ullman-Multiple-Nuclei Model

Answer 40

Edward Ullman and Chauncy Harris, Believe that the CBD was less of a focal point, instead takes into account the urban sprawl that became more common in the 1950s.

Question 41

Lewis-Galactic City (Peripheral) Model

Answer 41

Developed in the 1980s, Explained what happened as cities became decentralized and formed suburbs following the invention of the car, Peirce Lewis

Question 42

Griffin Ford Latin American Model

Answer 42

Traditional elements of Latin American culture mixed with elements of modern globalization Big separation between the rich and the poor, it's key feature is the spine, founded by Ernest Griffin and Larry Ford

Question 43

De Blij-Sub-Saharan African City Model

Answer 43

3 CBDs: colonial, traditional, and market area Ethnic and mixed neighborhoods Informal shantytowns on the outside due to high population growth rates, Harm de Blij

Question 44

Islamic City (north Africa and SW Asia)

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Key features: Central Mosque As city grows, smaller mosques are built towards the edge, Gustave von Grunebaum

Question 45

McGee-Southeast Asian City Model

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Focal point was old colonial port areas, NO FORMAL CBD, TG Mcgee

Question 46

Where is sprawl more common

Answer 46

American cities

Question 47

Zoning

Answer 47

the process of dividing a city or urban area into zone within which only certain land uses are permitted

Question 48

Infrastructure

Answer 48

includes all services and institutions that help maintain the health, safety, economic and social aspects of a country