What is the idea that arithmetic density gets lower as you travel further from the CBD?
100
This is the term for when settlements sprawl beyond the original urban areas and start taking over formerly rural areas.
What is urban sprawl? Suburban sprawl? Sprawl?
100
This is a major urban problem.
What is pollution, crime, redlining, gentrification, filtering, underclass, homelessness, public housing...
100
This term refers to where retail and office activities are clustered in a simplified model of a city.
What is a central business district?
200
This is why land rents are high in a CBD and why skyscrapers are built.
What is competition for space?
200
This is where poor people live in the cities in developing countries.
What are squatter settlements on the outside of the city?
200
This is where poorer people in European cities tend to live.
What are remote suburbs?
200
This is why inner city neighborhoods don't collect much taxes.
What is poor people live there.
200
These are open spaces that surround British cities. (It is also a level of karate training.)
What are greenbelts?
300
This is the type of consumer service you will usually find on the ground floor of a skyscraper.
What is retail?
300
What model might use nodes centered around a port, a university, or a park?
What is the multiple-nuclei model?
300
This state leads the nation in construction of light rail.
What is California?
300
About 1 in how many children in the U.S. is considered homeless?
What is about 1 in 30.
300
This is the process by which banks designate an area where they refuse to lend money for improvements.
What is redlining?
400
This is the main clientele of retail stores in a CBD.
What are people who work in the CBD?
400
These were the laws that governed how the Spanish must construct their colonial cities.
What are the Laws of the Indies?
400
These are two ways that electric cars cause pollution.
What is it takes fossil fuels to make electricity, and the batteries needed for the cars make pollution when they are created.
400
This term refers to the buildup of heat in urban areas due to a lack of vegetation, buildup of greenhouse gases, and the absorption of heat through pavement.
What are urban heat islands?
400
The process of legally adding land to a city in the united states is known as this.
What is annexation?
500
This is why industrial activities are rarely found in a CBD.
What is factories are more efficient as single-story structures rather than skyscrapers.
500
These are two other names for squatter settlements and where these terms are used in the world.
What are favelas and barriadas in Latin America, bidonvilles in North Africa, bastees in India, gecekondu in Turkey, kampongs in Malaysia, or barong-barongs in the Phillippines?
500
These are two current ways cities manage traffic congestion without using public transportation.
What are google maps traffic, congestion charges, tolls, permits, bands?
500
What fraction of homeless people are single men?
What is two-fifths?
500
This is the term that refers to both metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas.