Urban Models
Model that illustrates the hierarchical spatial patterns/order of cities and settlements; based on economic functions/consumer behavior
What is Central Place Theory?
Metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
The process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods, often displacing existing low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
These green areas are set aside to limit development and preserve open space around cities.
What are greenbelts?
Large cities that exert global economic, cultural, and political influence and make up a network of economic, social, and information flows.
What are world cities?
In this urban model, cities develop around multiple focal points and build outwards to create a functional region.
What is Multiple Nuclei Model?
One particular city is extremely large in terms of population size AND economic, cultural and political influence.
What is a primate city?
These are informal housing areas often lacking legal ownership and basic services.
What are squatter settlements?
When multiple types of land use (e.g. residential, commercial, recreational) exist in the same area.
What is mixed-use land?
This process involves the movement of people from central cities to residential areas outside the urban core.
What is suburbanization?
This urban model is characteristized by a port zone, which was the center of commerce in colonial times.
What is Southeast Asian City Model?
Model that illustrates the relationship between population distribution in cities that are interconnected in the urban hierarchy. Typically indicates somewhat even development.
What is rank-size rule?
A now-illegal practice where real estate agents encouraged white homeowners to sell cheaply out of racial fear.
What is blockbusting?
The official boundaries and government of a city or town.
What is a municipality?
One particular city is extremely large in terms of population size AND economic, cultural and political influence.
What is a primate city?
Model that illustrates the spatial relationship/amount of interaction between locations of different sizes - flows of people, trade, traffic, communication, etc.
What is Gravity Model?
If a city follow's rank-size rule, and the population of the largest city is 12 million. The third largest city is (what size)?
What is 4 million?
The discriminatory practice where financial institutions deny services (loans, insurance) to residents in specific, often minority, neighborhoods, marked with red on maps, leading to disinvestment, racial segregation, and urban decay, creating lasting economic and spatial inequality.
An attempt to rebuild or redevelop parts of the urban landscape, often using public-private partnerships.
What is urban renewal?
Community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers, office space, retail complexes, and amenities typically found in an urban center.
What is Edge Cities?
Most modern urban model; developed in the 1980s. Focuses on the decentralization and suburbanization of urban environments; includes edge cities
What is Galactic City Model?
Cities and settlements are organized into a hierarchy based on their population size, the range of goods and services they provide, and their economic and political importance. The general hierarchy from smallest to largest is: RANK THEM CORRECTLY:
Village, Town, Hamlet, City, Megalopolis, Metropolis
Location where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance.
What is food desert?
Transportation systems, power stations & lines , wifi, and sewage systems are examples of:
What is Infrastructure?
Housing discrimination maintained by real estate industry - white families were encouraged to rapidly sell when African-American families moved into neighborhoods.
What is blockbusting?