Unit 7

Question 1

Examples of site

Answer 1

High point over looking a river
Confluence of 2 rivers
Mouth of a river
Shores of a natural harbor

Question 2

What is the population of the 4th largest city if the rank size rule applies if the largest city has 1 million people

Answer 2

250,000

Question 3

What concerns are there for a developing counties where the rank size rule doesn’t apply

Answer 3

Unequal development
Bad accessibility
Brain drain
Disproportionate effects of disaster

Question 4

How has composition of the world’s most populated cities changed since 1950

Answer 4

More LDC’s

Question 5

What factors have contributed to rapid urbanization in LDC’s?

Answer 5

Job opportunities for rural and displaced

Cultural amenities

Question 6

Cities in NA and Europe have urbanized rapidly since what time frame

Answer 6

Industrial rev

Question 7

Block busting contributed to

Answer 7

White flight

Question 8

A bank engages in (blank) if they wouldn’t grant mortgages to people living in certain area codes or neighborhoods

Answer 8

Redlining

Question 9

Who is most likely to move into revitalized urban downtown areas

Answer 9

People without kids and have jobs 
Sinks
Dinks
Yuppies
Recent college grads
White collar empty nesters

Question 10

What factors helped suburbanization

Answer 10

Post WWII
Gov programs to help vets
Highways
Brown vs board of education

Question 11

In NA high class residential neighborhoods are (blank)? Europe?

Answer 11

Far from CBD

Near CBD

Question 12

Main visual diff between NA and European cities is

Answer 12

Less skyscrapers in Europe

Question 13

Suburban developments suffer from a lack of (blank) and social (blank)

Answer 13

Diversity

Isolation

Question 14

Negative environmental consequences of urban sprawl

Answer 14

Air pollution, water overconsumption, loss of habitats, loss of valuable green space and land

Question 15

According to bid rent, as you get closer to the CBD

Answer 15

Price goes up

Question 16

Trend of metropolitan residents moving to rural areas and small towns is

Answer 16

Counter urbanization

Question 17

Environmentally, how does New Urbanism help?

Answer 17

Development of green space, less crowding, more public amenities

Question 18

Transition of a low income neighborhood to a wealthier neighborhood is an example of

Answer 18

Gentrification

Question 19

Green belt policy

Answer 19

Encourages city growth in the CORE

Question 20

Blockbusting was a (blank) movement

Answer 20

Racial

Question 21

gated communities are known for (blank) income and (blank) lifestyles.

Answer 21

High

Elite

Question 22

Since 1980s here has seven a trend to build suburbs and edge cities in the US where?

Answer 22

Farther and farther from the CBD

Question 23

Redlining is practiced by

Answer 23

Banks and lending institutions

Question 24

Suburbanization causes cities to (blank) which leads to (blank)

Answer 24

Lose population

Urban

Question 25

2 components that enabled the formation of cities

Answer 25

AG surplus and social stratification

Question 26

Where did cities start

Answer 26

Mesopotamia

Question 27

When the largest city is inversely proportional to the next largest cities

Answer 27

Rank size rule

Question 28

Paris and Mexico City are both

Answer 28

Primate cities

Question 29

Primate cities are (blank) of the next largest city

Answer 29

More than double the size

Question 30

The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in the peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in

Answer 30

Edge cities

Question 31

Practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in a neighborhood is called

Answer 31

Gentrification

Question 32

Process where by an increasing percent of people live in an urban area is

Answer 32

Urbanization

Question 33

The industrial rev promoted

Answer 33

Urbanization

Question 34

Of the 10 largest cities in the world how many are in MDC's

Answer 34

2

Question 35

Process of legally adding land area to a city in the US is

Answer 35

Annexation

Question 36

A megalopolis is

Answer 36

Adjacent overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas or MSAs

Question 37

Process of change of use in a house from single family to abandonment is

Answer 37

Filtering

Question 38

In the US the underclass is clustered

Answer 38

In the inner city

Question 39

Development of green space in cities, less crowing, and more public amenities is referred to as

Answer 39

New urbanism

Question 40

Physical qualifies of the original location of a city is

Answer 40

Site