Urban Geography
This colorful term refers to a type of residential discrimination practiced in the United States during the 20th century, in which African Americans were not allowed to rent or buy houses in certain areas of cities
What is redlining?
The physical characteristics of a place: New Orleans has a poor one
What is site?
The innermost "shed" of von Thunen's model
What is the milkshed?
Italy
What is Rome?
Indo-European and Dravidian are examples of these
What are language families?
Mixed-use development and walkable neighborhoods are the major features of this two-word urban policy trend
What is New Urbanism?
The type of diffusion in which the main idea of the cultural feature remains, but the details vary: examples include McDonald's serving different types of food in different countries
What is stimulus diffusion?
What are triangles?
Russia
What is Moscow?
What is luxury?
Tysons Corner is the best example of this feature of the urban realms model
What is an edge city?
This type of region has a common purpose: examples include newspaper and pizza delivery zones, or service areas for cable companies
What is a functional region?
What is the multiple nuclei model?
Canada
What is Ottawa?
Carl Sauer's study of geography focused on the cultural ____________, or the cultural impacts on an area, including buildings, agricultural patterns, roads, etc.
What is landscape?
The term for a group of cities located near one another that have grown together and are at least somewhat economically interdependent
What is a megalopolis?
The uniqueness of a location and the emotions attached to it can be referred to by this
What is sense of place?
Spykman's theory that informed the US policy of containment during the Cold War was also known by this term
What is the rimland theory?
Australia
What is Canberra?
South Africa is a perforated state; this country is entirely located within its borders
What is Lesotho?
In a country that fits the rank-size rule and whose third-largest city has 2 million people, the largest city will have this many people
What is 6 million?
A region whose boundaries are based on people's subjective notions about the characteristics of the region: examples include the Midwest or the South
What is a perceptual (vernacular) region?
This man had a famous hypothesis that stated that most languages originated from Anatolia, or modern-day Turkey
Who is Renfrew?
Bulgaria
What is Sofia?
The four markers of a nation are a shared cultural heritage, a homeland, self-determination, and this
What is loyalty?