City Models
This city model is also known as the Concentric Zone Model and shows a city growing outward in rings from the CBD.
What is the Burgess Model?
This theory explains how cities and towns are spaced and organized to provide goods and services to surrounding areas.
What is Central Place Theory?
This concept describes designing cities so people can easily reach homes, jobs, and services on foot instead of relying on cars.
What is walkability?
This part of a city contains the highest concentration of businesses, offices, and services and is often the most accessible area.
What is the central business district (CBD)?
This occurs when long-term residents are displaced as wealthier people move into a neighborhood and housing prices rise.
What is gentrification?
This city model shows urban development spreading outward in wedges along transportation routes, like highways or railroads.
What is the Hoyt Model?
In Central Place Theory, this term refers to the minimum number of people needed to support a good or service.
What is threshold?
This urban planning strategy places housing, shopping, and offices close together to reduce commute times and urban sprawl.
What is mixed-use development?
This concept best explains why a country with many well-distributed medium-sized cities lacks a single overwhelmingly dominant city.
What is the rank-size rule?
This discriminatory practice denied loans and investment to certain neighborhoods based on race or ethnicity, shaping long-term patterns of inequality.
What is redlining?
This city model argues that cities do not grow in neat rings or wedges, but instead develop around multiple centers or nodes.
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model?
This concept describes how far a consumer is willing to travel to purchase a good or service.
What is range?
This planning movement promotes compact neighborhoods with sidewalks, local businesses, and community spaces to reduce car dependency.
What is new urbanism?
In a country where the largest city is far larger and more economically dominant than any other city, the urban pattern best fits which concept?
What is a primate city?
Communities located near highways, landfills, or industrial sites often experience poorer health outcomes due to unequal exposure to pollution and hazards.
What is environmental injustice?
A city has a wealthy residential area connected to the CBD by a major transportation corridor, while low-income housing expands outward on the city’s edges. The layout reflects a mix of colonial planning and modern economic influence.
What is the Latin American City Model?
A small town has many gas stations and convenience stores, but residents must travel to a larger city for a university or professional sports team. This pattern best reflects which idea from Central Place Theory?
What is high-order vs. low-order goods?
A city limits outward expansion, preserves farmland and natural areas on its edges, and encourages redevelopment within existing neighborhoods. This approach is best described as which sustainability strategy?
What are green belts?
As job opportunities expand in a metropolitan area, both internal migration and natural population increase contribute to rapid urban growth. This trend places the greatest strain on which city feature?
What is infrastructure?
A city requires new housing developments to include a percentage of affordable units in an effort to reduce displacement, improve access to services, and ease conflict over neighborhood change.
What is inclusionary zoning?
Urban planners are studying a rapidly growing city where housing patterns are shaped by ethnic divisions, former colonial rule, and access to infrastructure rather than distance from the CBD. The city does not follow a single growth pattern.
What is the African City Model?
A geographer notices that larger cities are farther apart and offer specialized services, while smaller towns are closer together and provide everyday needs. This spatial pattern is best explained by which assumption of Central Place Theory?
What is the hierarchy of central places?
This sustainability strategy often faces criticism for increasing housing prices by limiting development, even though it reduces sprawl and environmental damage.
What are slow-growth cities?
A geographer predicts strong interaction between two cities because they have large populations and are located relatively close together, despite being in different metropolitan areas.
What is the gravity model?
Public opposition emerges when redevelopment projects improve infrastructure and investment but also threaten affordability and community identity.
What is conflict over change?