Models
Cities
Infrastructure and Land Use
Sustainability
Data and Land Use
100
This model is best known by its 3 central business districts (traditional, colonial, and market)
What is the African Urban Model?
100
This is an urban are with 10 million plus residents.
What is a megacity?
100
What is the process of dividing and sectioning a city for specific uses?
Zoning.
100
What concept is focused on when New Urbanism tries to combat pollution and urban sprawl by designing a city with businesses and residential areas close together, reducing the need for cars
Walkability
100
If a map shows high housing prices clustered near the central business district, what theory is being presented?
Bid-Rent Theory
200
What model is shown here?
What is the South East Asia Model?
200
This is an urban area with 20 million plus residents.
What is a metacity?
200
Typically found in LDC's, like Rio De Janeiro, in the semi-periphery/periphery disamenity zones. They often have makeshift infrastructure homes, with problems such as water access and informal economies.
What are slums, squatter settlements, or favelas.
200
This New Urbanism technique often brought in new buyers from the suburbs back to the inner cities to renovate rundown areas, often near the CBD, but results in higher property taxes for lower income families as a result
What is gentrification?
200
Squatter Settlements often lack what specific trait(s) that lowers quality of life and lifespan?
Water access and sanitation
300
What model uses edge cities and economic development outside of the CBD connected by suburban developments to show the growth of modern cities?
The Galactic City Model
300
Goods and services provided to the public such as water access, sanitation, and quality roads is also known as
Infrastructure
300
As cities expand outward and further from the CBD, this is known as what?
Sprawl/Urban Sprawl
300
This sustainability technique to combat urban decay is typically done to clean up rundown industrial areas in the city, which generally carries polluted and contaminated soils.
What are redevelopments of Brownfields?
300
Census data collected every 10 years is known as what type of data?
Quantitative data
400
This model is characterized by a long strip stretching from the CBD to a Mall, commonly surrounded by higher-income citizens.
Latin American City Model
400
Cities that are core to international connections through either economic, cultural or political influence are known as
World Cities (London, New York, Paris, etc.)
400
As cities expand further from the CBD, what becomes the main mode of transportation?
Cars/Personal Vehicles
400
This technique is used to preserve farmland and the environment for generations in the future.
What is Sustainability?
400
A practice in which low-income neighborhoods are sectioned off as "risky" for loans from banks in a city.
Redlining
500
This model was designed with transportation networks in mind (railroad and highways) with CBD's and new suburban areas along the routes. There is also a high class residential zone connected to public transportation.
Hoyt Sector Model
500
Name any one of the three megacities found in North America
Mexico City, Mexico
New York City, United States
Los Angeles, United States
500
This is utilized in the United Kingdom, to reduce urban sprawl and promote the sustaining of national forests and agricultural areas.
Green Belts
500
This is when areas in a city have no clear divide between commercial and residential zoning or having two types of zoning on one plot of land that resulted from New Urbanism.
What are mixed-use neighborhoods?
500
What is one example of how quantitative data can be used in urban planning?
Census data can be used to send funds to certain areas for specific needs the data shows (older population means more funding for elder care, young population means more funding for schooling, etc.)