Urban Concepts
A city with a population with at least 10 million but fewer than 20 million people.
What is a megacity?
The closer an area of land is to the CBD, the higher the price of the land and larger the density of people who inhabit it.
What is the Urban Bid-Rent Theory?
An important measurement of an urban area's impact on the natural environment.
What is Urban Footprint?
Founded by and inhabited since the days of the Roman Empire, this European city has been considered a world city since 1991.
What is Londinium (London, England)?
After the second urban revolution, this mode of transportation has led the way when it comes to the creation and success of Suburban areas.
What are automobiles and road networks?
Allows wealthy individuals to live apart from the rest of society, notorious for causing de facto segregation in pursuit of higher security
What are gated communities?
This model of urban cities focuses on thresholds, the minimum number of people needed to support a service and range, the distance residents are willing to travel to receive those services.
Rising ethnic tensions, de facto segregation, displacement of lower income groups, loss of historic buildings and culture
What are negative consequences of gentrification?
The name of the largest city in Nigeria, with a population four times greater than the second largest city AND the principle of human geography it represents.
What is Lagos and the Primate City rule?
What is smart growth?
What is a built environment?
This serves the function of a CBD in the Southeast Asian city model.
What is a Port zone?
High income white residents looking for housing closer to the CBD, city officials looking to reverse urban blight
What are groups most likely to support gentrification?
What is the Rank-size rule?
Greenwalls, zoning to promote vertical growth over horizontal, smart growth practices, New Urbanism
What are ways to promote urban sustainability?
In defiance of this city model, media hubs, the internet and the headquarters of multinational corporations allow global cities transcend national political boundaries despite being farther apart than ever before.
What is the Gravity model?
A city model that represents the original functions of CBDs (shopping, art, historic districts, office work) and spreads it around to various places around an area outside of the CBD.
What is the Galaxy or Galactic City Model?
This is the status of an area after being heavily polluted by hazardous materials, landfills, and industrial manufacturing.
What are brownfields?
A city that is considered the control center of the global economy, in which major decisions are made about the world's commercial networks and financial markets.
What is a World City? (also Global City)
As cities have evolved away from the traditional CBD, rapid suburban growth has led to this new type of urban development.
What are Edge cities?
What is Socioeconomic stratification?
This city model features 3 unique CBDs due to influence from colonial and indigenous cultures.
What is the Sub-Saharan city model?
What is redlining?
Because it has cities like Los Angeles focused on entertainment, Washington D.C. on government and New York on economics and commerce with a population split predictably between them.
Why does the US follow Rank Size and not contain a true Primate City?
In addition to global issues like climate change and the happiness of urban residents, this economic issue drives a lot of urban renewal and sustainable urban planning.
What is the concept of Fiscal Squeeze caused by a fiscal imbalance, possibly resolved by fiscal zoning?