Vocabulary
What is annexation?
The process of adding land area to a city.
What is a service?
An activity that fulfills a human want or need in return for payment
What is a model of urban structure?
A simplified representation of the spatial organization of cities.
What does CBD stand for?
Central Business District
Gentrification only affects the middle-class.
False
What is a central place?
Market center for the exchange of goods and services for people attracted from the surrounding area.
What are the three types of services?
Consumer, Business, and Public
Which model suggests a city grows outwards in a series of rings?
Concentric Zone Model
What is a consequence of gentrification?
1. Loss of affordable housing
2. Increased cost of living
3. Displacement of low-class
4. Loss of diversity
The principal purpose of business services is to facilitate other businesses.
True
What is threshold?
The minimum number of people/customers needed to support a service.
What type of service includes professional, financial, and transportation services?
Business services
Which model suggests that some activities are attracted to particular nodes, while others avoid each other?
Multiple Nuclei Model
What is the only major U.S. city with no skyscrapers?
Washington D.C.
Informal, self constructed housing often built on land that is the squatters do not legally own are squatter settlements.
True
What is a periodic market?
A mobile market that sets up in a new location on a daily basis.
List an example for each of the 3 types of services...
Consumer:
Business:
Public:
In the Latin American City Model, what is the wealthy class clustered around?
A commercial spine
List 3 characteristics of a CBD:
1. attracts services due to accessibility
2.focal point of transportation
3. oldest district in the city
4. found near or at the original settlement site
5. often situated along body of water
The eroding tax base increases the taxes available for public services.
False
What is gentrification?
When middle-class families move into the deteriorating inner-city and renovate the neighborhood.
Why are business services not found in every settlement?
They tend to be found in the larger settlements that specialize in only 1 or 2 specific business services.
How can the Sector Model be used to analyze North America cities?
To understand that families/people of different incomes with not live within the same sector/neighborhood.
Why does a CBD have so many skyscrapers?
High demand of CBD with no room to grow outwards/horizontally
The population of the 8th largest settlement is 80,000 when the population of the largest settlement in 720,000.
* If false, give me the correct answer*
False - 90,000