Urban Places

Question 0

Diversified City

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A city with multiple economic bases in a wide variety of different types of industry and commerce. Winnipeg is a great example of this.

Question 1

Threshold Population

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The minimum number of people required in a community before a particular amenity (gas station, restaurant, Walmart, movie theater) will move into that community.

Question 2

urbanization

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The process of citizens of a country moving from a rural setting into the cities.

Question 3

Government City

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A city, which exists predominantly to meet the needs of its citizens through government. Example: Washington DC, Ottawa, Brasilia.

Question 4

Service Centre

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A city, which exists mainly to provide government services to the citizens of that city or country. Again Brasilia, Ottawa, and Washington DC. would be good examples.

Question 5

Resource Based City

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A city which exists because of a useful natural commodity which has been located nearby. Ex: Oil - Edmonton, Nickel - Sudbury, Metallic Minerals - Thompson, Oilsands/Tar-sands - Fort McMurray.

Question 6

Tourist City

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A city, which owes most of its basic income to outside visitors. Orlando, Las Vegas, and Niagara Falls are all great examples.

Question 7

Industrial City

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A city that relies on manufacturing for the largest part of their economic base. Windsor or Detroit for example.

Question 8

Multiplier Effect/Snowball Effect

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The growth a city may encounter because of the principle of Basic jobs creating a demand for non-basic ones. One hundred basic jobs will create approximately three hundred non basic jobs. An increased population means more demand for services, movies, restaurants, schools etc. and a city’s population will increase. The same can work in reverse if one hundred basic jobs are lost.

Question 9

Economic Base

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is the term for all functions and activities on which a city depends for the bulk of its financial existence.

Question 10

Basic/Non Basic Industry or jobs.

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Basic are those jobs or industries, which bring money in from outside the community. Non Basic industry simply moves money around inside of a community. Disney World is therefore basic industry for Orlando, local McDonald’s Restaurants are not. Another example is Motor Coach Industries for Winnipeg.

Question 11

High/Medium/Low Order good.

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High - Things bought very infrequently, which we are willing to travel further to shop for. (ex: Large TV, Automobile, major appliances.)
Medium - Items bought occasionally, several times a year. We will invest a little shopping energy for these, but not as much as high order goods. (ex: New clothing, smaller appliances, stereos, CDs.)
Low order - Easily aquired items found at local service centres or plazas. (ex: Bread, Milk, Food items.)

Question 12

Sarnia

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A Canadian City with a rich “Petrochemical History. Began as a transportation hub, and later developed an oil refinery, processing fuels, and plastics.

Question 13

A Megacity

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Any City with a minimum of 10 million inhabitants, today there are no fewer than 19 mega-cities on Earth.

Question 14

Cultural Diffusion

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The outward spread of knowledge and civilization from a cradle of civilization.

Question 15

Hinterland

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The area surrounding a town that trades goods and commerce with that town.

Question 16

Infill Housing

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A newer House built on a lot (often where a home was lost due to fire) in an older neighborhood. Like the Olive coloured one opposite Henderson Hwy from MBCI.

Question 17

Zoning

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Municipal By-laws about what land may be used for.

Question 18

Residential Density.

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The number of homes or places to live as a ratio over land area in km. squared or hectares.

Question 19

Low Density Residential

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Fewer than 30 places to live per hectare. Big curvy streets, single family homes, man-made lakes are all signs of low density.

Question 20

Medium Density Residential

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30 - 100 places to live per hectare. More grid system in the streets, and smaller yard sizes are indicators of Medium Density Residential.

Question 21

High Density Residential.

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More than 100 places to live per hectare. Characterized by 3 story walk up appartments, duplexes, and High Rise apartments or condominiums.

Question 22

CBD

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Central Business District is the place in the city where they have the tallest buildings and the most expensive land. For Winnipeg this would be portage and Main Street intersection’s.

Question 23

Community shopping center

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This is a shopping mall designed to serve a smaller community. Examples in Winnipeg would be Grant Park shopping center or Unicity shopping center.

Question 24

Regional shopping center

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These are malls that people are willing to travel a little bit further to have the experience of shopping in. Examples in Winnipeg would be Polo Park or St. Vital shopping center.

Question 25

Plaza or ribbon

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These are long strips of stores located along arterial roads. They often house pizza places, hair salons, gas stations, or tanning booths.

Question 26

Arterial Road

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These are main streets to get around in the city usually they have traffic lights, and speed limits of 60 KM’s per hour.

Question 27

Expressways

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These are roads designed to flow more traffic at a quicker pace. They usually have speed limits of 80 to 100 km an hour and do not have stop signs but rather on and off ramps. In Winnipeg the closest we would have to one of these is the perimeter Highway.

Question 28

Local roads

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These are roads with lower speed limits designed to get people in and out of their neighborhoods. They are rarely used to drive through a city. They will have stop signs also.

Question 29

Transect

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This is a line drawn through the middle of the city for the purpose of studying statistical data along that line.

Question 30

Census tract

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These are areas of land along the transect in which we gather data about citizens.

Question 31

Suburban

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Suburban has to do with that part of the city which is on the outlying edge of the city. An example in Winnipeg of suburbs might include Lindenwoods, White Ridge, and River Park South.

Question 32

Urban sprawl

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This is the way in which a city can spread out causing it to have a lower population density. Urban sprawl can lead to more expensive operation of the city because one needs more fuel for bus service, garbage collection, recycling, and snow removal.

Question 33

Duplex

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This is a structure which contains two homes but are built together sharing at least one wall.

Question 34

How can one fight traffic congestion on arterial roads or other areas of city travel paths?

Answer 34

Often times congestion can be defeated by widening roads, having one-way streets, expanding public transit, encouraging carpooling, and restricting private car access to the central business district.

Question 35

Urban renewal

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This is a phrase used to describe the tearing down of old structures and buildings in the city and replacing them with new structures and a new vision of how the space is to be used.

Question 36

Pedestrian

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This is the person who travels around by foot, Brasília had the highest per capita death rate of pedestrians on planet earth according to the film “Understanding Cities.”

Question 37

Poverty

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Is one of the top three problems facing modern Urban Places according to page 213 in your textbook. (Take a look at what the other 14 listed troubles facing cities are.)