One of the oldest and visually distinctive areas of most cities is known as downtown or ___.
CBD - central business district
100
The most prominent structures in CBDs of cities outside of North America include...
churches, parks, royal palaces
100
Cities identify blighted inner-city neighboods and relocate residents and business, clear the sites, and build new roads and utilities, then develop the areas with new buildings and services. This is called...
urban renewal
100
The process of legally adding land area to a city is called
annexation
100
What urban model is characterized by growth in a pie-shape with sectors developed along transport routes
Hoyt Sector Model
200
High threshold retailers, such as department stores, tend to cluster near one intersection in the CBD. What is this area known as?
100 percent corner
200
Urban models help us understand where people with different _________ characteristics tend to live within an urban area.
social or socioeconomic
200
Residential areas reserved for low-income households who pay a low percentage of their income for rent are called...
Public housing
200
in 1950 only 20% of American lived in the suburbs. In 2000, ___% of Americans lived in the suburbs.
50
200
These are characteristics of which urban model?
CBD, industry and factories, residential areas zoned by low/medium/high class
Burgess Concentric Zone Model
300
Land costs are determined by how close or far they are from the CBD. Rank these areas in order of cost from lowest to highest.
CBD, rural, suburban
rural, suburban, CBD
300
The primary reason that more women than men live in or near central cities due to lower income housing and fewer transportation issues is called...
feminization of povery
300
the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing is called
gentrification
300
One issue with suburban areas is the overlapping of the regulations of which portion of infrastructure?
political - city/county
300
Which model was developed in the 1940s by Harris & Ullman showing that the CBD was decentralized with central areas disconnected and not necessarily relying on each other with different ethnic and racial populations living near each other.
Multiple Nuclei
400
Which activities are typically missing from a CBD?
factories/industry
400
In LDCs the poor tend to be located in the ______ where land and rent costs are lower.
suburbs
400
Groups of inner-city populations who tend to have fewer services, lower standard schools, and homeless people are called...
underclass
400
An urbanized areas with a population of at least 50,000 with high population density is called...
metropolitan statistical area/MSA
400
Latin American Cities are designed based on which of the urban models?
Sector Model
500
The demand for space in CBDs has caused vertical distribution in the form of which two structures?
underground areas and skyscrapers
500
In pre-colonical cities most people lived in rural settlements with cities often laid out surrounding a _______ core.
religious (places of worship)
500
A culture of poverty in inner-city residents has led to reduced services because of an eroding...
tax base
500
European urban areas attack sprawl by designating rings of open space surrounding the cities called...
greenbelts
500
Land gets less _______ and buildings get ______ as you move out from the CBD.