Definitions
Characteristics at the immediate location (physical features).
What is Site?
The location where people to receive goods and services.
What is Central Place?
Gives information about where people live, population composition, age, gender, ethnicity, race, family size and it required every 10 years in the United Staes.
What is the US Census?
Which of the following is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?
A. Most are located on rivers or seacoasts
B. Most are found in areas that not very suitable for agriculture
C. Most Primate cities are located in the United States and Western Europe.
D. They are connected between the tropic of Caner and Tropic of Capricorn
E. The world fastest-growing cities are found in areas with the highest standards of living
What is "A. Most are located on rivers or seacoasts"
Process of people moving to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.
This zone has an old colonial port zone and surrounding commercial districts.
What is the Southeast Asian city model.
Local ordinances that governs land use.
What is Urban Planning in the United States?
Historically, the growth of North American Suburbs was most constrained by
A. High Land Values
B. Zoning ordinances
C. Limited Transportation
D. Housing Shortages
E. Cultural Preferences
What is "C. Limited Transportation"?
Minimum number of people needed to support a service.
What is Threshold?
The Multiple-Nuclei model is most applicable to
What is New, fast-growing cities
The process zoned minorities and poor communities into areas that made it difficult to obtain loans, limited homeownership, and perpetuated cycle of poverty.
What is Redlining.
According to the sector model of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in which of the following places?
A. The inner city only
B. Peripheral temporary settlements
C. Linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward
D. Evenly dispersed throughout the urban area
E. The suburbs and rural areas only
What is "C. Linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward"?
The process of converting an urban inner-city neighborhood from a mostly low income, renter occupied neighborhood to a predominately wealthier, owner-occupied area of a city.
Largest city in an urban system that is more than twice as large as the next largest city.
Lack of quality housing in periphery countries has created these areas that often lack planning and sufficient public services.
What are Informal Settlements/ Squatter Settlements.
In the development of urban land, which of the following is typically buily on the most accessible sites?
A. Single-family housing
B. Farm Markets
C. Retail complexes
D. Industrial parks
E. High-rise apartment buildings
What is "C. Retail complexes"?
Policy adopted by the US to clear out blighted inner-city slums, which displaced residents to low income government housing.
What is Urban Renewal?
Result from rapid suburban growh and expansion of retail areas, office developments, business centers, and corporate headquarters to provide jobs and services in suburban areas.
What are edge cities?
Process of renovating a site by removing existing landscape and rebuilding from the ground up, which can force poor people to leave their owns and destroy historic neighborhoods.
What is Urban Redevelopment.
Which of the following exemplifies a smart-growth approach to urban planning?
A. Construction of wider highways in an effort to lesson congestion.
B. Conversion to farmland to housing to encourage mirgation to suburbs.
C. Creation of zoning laws that seperatr retail spaces from housing developments
D. Creation of walkable neighborhood with mixed-use land and access to public transportation
E. Construction of affordable housing in suburban neighborhoods.
What is "D. Creation of walkable neighborhood with mixed-use land and access to public transportation"?