Urban Models
City Growth
Urban Issues
Planning and Policy
Miscellaneous
100
Model that illustrates the hierarchical spatial patterns/order of cities and settlements; based on economic functions/consumer behavior
What is Central Place Theory?
100
Metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
100
The process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods, often displacing existing low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
100
These green areas are set aside to limit development and preserve open space around cities.
What are greenbelts?
100
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?
200
In this urban model, cities develop around multiple focal points and build outwards to create a functional region.
What is Multiple Nuclei Model?
200
One particular city is extremely large in terms of population size AND economic, cultural and political influence.
What is a primate city?
200
These are informal housing areas often lacking legal ownership and basic services.
What are squatter settlements?
200
When multiple types of land use (e.g. residential, commercial, recreational) exist in the same area.
What is mixed-use land?
200
This process involves the movement of people from central cities to residential areas outside the urban core. See the rise of suburbanization in the US after WW2.
What is suburbanization?
300
This urban model is characteristized by a port zone, which was the center of commerce in colonial times.
What is Southeast Asian City Model?
300
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?
300
A now-illegal practice where real estate agents encouraged white homeowners to sell cheaply out of racial fear.
What is blockbusting?
300
The official boundaries and government of a city or town.
What is a municipality?
300
The unplanned and uncontrolled growth away from a central city.
What is urban sprawl?
400
Model that illustrates the spatial relationship/amount of interaction between cities of different sizes - flows of people, trade, traffic, communication, etc.
What is Gravity Model?
400
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?
400
A practice that began in the 1930s, in which banks refused to make loans based on neighborhood ratings. Neighborhoods given a score of 4, "Hazardous," were generally black and new immigrant neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
400
An attempt to rebuild or redevelop parts of the urban landscape, often using public-private partnerships.
What is urban renewal?
400
Community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers, office space, and retail complexes.
What is an Edge City?
500
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?
500
The number of people needed to support a service or good and the distance someone is willing to travel to access that service or good
What is a market's threshold and range?
500
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?
500
Transportation systems, power stations & lines , wifi, and sewage systems are examples of:
What is Infrastructure?
500
a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large sprawling city with 100,000 + people and often exceeds the population of nearby cities.
What is a boomburb?