Urban Geography Unit 6 Flashcards

Question

A primate city is

Answer 1

A county's largest city, and is at least 2x as large as the next biggest city and more than 2x as significant, usually capital, and represents the national culture. (ex: Paris, or London)

Answer 2

The idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy.E

Answer 3

Largest city = 1,000,000 Second largest city = 1,000,000/2 Third largest city = 1,000,000/3 .

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A measure of the interactions of people which is used to predict the movement of people.

Answer 5

Larger/closer together places have greater interactions than smaller further away areas. Friction of Distance/distance decay apply here.

Answer 6

Explaining the distribution, size, location, and interaction of settlements in an urban system. Explains how cities can be interdependent.

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The dependence of two or more cities as interrelated networks, where one city's growth affects the others.

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A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding areas.

Answer 9

The land surrounding the central place.

Answer 10

Specialized items like jewelry, cars, and other things bought less often.

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Products that are replenished frequently such as food, and other routine household items.

Answer 12

Provide a set of goods to their hinterland

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Serve smaller market areas and only provide low order goods.

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Fewer and farther apart and serve a large market area, providing high and low order goods.

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The minimum number of people needed for a business to prosper and survive.

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The maximum distance people will drive to purchase goods and services.

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Lots of residential homes, open spaces, with fewest people per geographic unit.

Answer 18

Townhomes, single unit housing.

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High rises, most people per unit.

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Land development that blends a combination of residential, commercial, cultural, industrial, or institutional uses.

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A measure of how friendly an area is to walking.

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land use pattern that includes a mix of commercial, residential, office, and entertainment space centered around or located near public transport, attracting people to connect communities

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urban planning that avoids urban sprawl and focuses on long term implications with sustainable design initiatives and guides development into more convenient patterns and into areas where infrastructure allows growth to be sustained over the long term.

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An area of natural land in which a building is restricted. Whose main purpose is to curb the outward expansion of a large urban area.

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Concentrates growth in walkable areas to decrease sprawl.

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Information about changes in population composition and size in urban areas.

Answer 27

Information about individual attitudes towards urban change.

Answer 28

a discriminatory real estate practice in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes in predominantly white neighborhoods , or a discriminatory banking practice of refusing to loan money to people in “risky” neighborhoods, creating a downward spiral in which poor neighborhoods become increasingly rundown.

Answer 29

real estate technique to encourage people to sell their property at a very low price by giving the impression that the neighborhood was changing for the worse, especially in reference to minorities moving in and led to a significant turnover in housing which benefitted real estate agents and led to the “white flight” to the suburbs

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Segregated neighborhoods, food deserts, etc.

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Residential units that are economical for a section of society whose income is below the median household income.

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Measure of people's ability to pay for services without financial hardship

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Contributing factors include lack of job availability, less access to quality schools, and real or perceived lack of opportunity.

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isproportionate exposure to communities of color and the poor to pollution and its effects on health and the environment; includes food deserts, inadequate transportation, unsafe neighborhoods with poor air and water quality.

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Area located within the city characterized by slums, the homeless, and in extreme cases are controlled by gangs.

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Areas with lack of jobs, declining land values, and falling demand that can cause people to leave and businesses to close.

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Planning ordinances that provide affordable housing to people with low of middle incomes.

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food that is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed, often accompanied by a social structure and supply chain different from the large-scale supermarket system

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the restoration of deteriorated urban areas by wealthier people who move into, renovate, and restore housing and sometimes businesses.

Answer 40

the redevelopment of areas within an urban area, typically neighborhoods in economic decline

Urban Geography Unit 6 Flashcards

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