What type of City?
Dakar, Senegal
What is a primate city?
What is the purpose of zoning?
To allow only specific land uses in various areas of a city
This German Geographer created the central place theory in 1933
Who is Walter Christaller?
According to this model, cities have an area of influence based on their size. It has been used to predict whether people will be more likely to visit, shop or do business in one city over another.
What is the gravity model?
Detroit, Michigan
What is a galactic city?
When comparing metacities vs megacities, this city has a larger population
What is a metacity?
The model for Central place theory is in this shape.
What is a hexagon?
This guide explains the population size of cities within a country may be distributed. It uses a country's largest city as a baseline and ranks all other cities in relation to it.
What is rank-size rule?
King of Prussia, PA
What is an edge city?
This type of zoning permits multiple land uses in the same space or structure
What is mixed-use zoning?
What is threshold?
In these countries, the rank-size rule does not apply. These countries will have few to no other medium to large cities in comparison to their largest.
What is the primate-city rule?
Tysons Corner, Virginia
What is an edge city?
This is often the center of urban models, working from the theory that a city grows outward from it
What is a central business district?
What is range?
What is NYC, NY?
Plano, Texas
Anaheim, California
What is a boomburb?
New York City, London and Tokyo
What are world cities?
Luxury cars, high-end fashion, works of art, professional sports events, museums and cultural festivals represent this type of good/service.
What are high-order goods and services?
What is 5 million?