Vocabulary
Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another.
What is Central Place Theory?
Regions adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant.
What are trade areas?
Model of a city with the CBD in the middle and five surrounding rings.
Individuals buy up and rehabilitate houses, raises the housing value in the neighborhood and changing the neighborhood.
What is gentrification?
The internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting.
What is site?
An agglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
What is a city?
The leading city of a country.
What is the Primate City?
A model that suggests the decline in the importance of a CBD.
What is the multiple nuclei model?
Houses that new owners buy with the intention of tearing it down to build a much larger home.
What are tear-downs?
Group of decision-makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others.
What is a leadership class?
An urban city is distinctively these two thing.
What are nonrural and nonagricultural?
The minimum number of people needed to support a central place function.
What is the threshold?
Model that suggests that other areas extend from the CBD to the outer edge of the city.
What is the sector model?
Houses with a super size and similar look.
In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
What is rank-size rule?
The Six Hearths of Urbanization.
What are Mesopotamia, Nile River Valley, Mesoamerica, Indus River Valley, Huang He River Valley, and Peru.
The maximum distance beyond which a person will not travel to purchase a good or service.
What is range?
Model that states that the old colonial port zone is the focal point of the city.
What is the McGee/Southeast Asian model?
Realtors sell a home at a low price to minorities.
What is blockbusting?
The migration of millions of Americans from northern and northeastern states to the South and Southwest. This results from deliberate governmental economic and social policies that favor "Sunbelt" cities through federal spending. The overall effect was a changed urban hierarchy in the Sunbelt region.
What is the Sunbelt Phenomenon?
This served as the focal point of Roman public life.
What is the Forum?
Name 2 categories of services found in a central place.
What are (any of the ones listed below)?
Grocery stores
Gas stations
Jewelry stores
Book stores
Hair stylists
Auto dealerships
Houses of worship
Schools
Doctors
Dentists
Model with three CBDs.
What is the Subsaharan Africa model?
Financial institutions refusing to lend money in certain neighborhoods.
What is redlining?