urbanization 101
all about spaces
cultural experiences
all about places
cities else- and everywhere
100

The steep part of Davis's S-curve represents this process.

Industrialization

100

This term highlights the difference in the design and experience of spaces for men and women.

Gendered spaces

100

Jane Jacobs says these things associated with people ultimately make streets safer.

Eyes and ears

100

New Urbanism derives part of its influence from this 1929 design conception.

Perry's neighborhood unit

100

Though not exact or perfect, this term has come to large replace what used to be classified as "Third World."

Global South

200

The earliest (real) cities started in these two regions of civilization.

Mesopotamia and Egypt

200

This term is used to describe areas of concentrated commercial activities outside a downtown CBD.

Edge cities

200

This person constructed an urban personality profile based on the size, density, and heterogeneity of cities.

Louis Wirth

200

One example of utopian planning that incorporates plazas and monuments is the ________ movement.

City beautiful

200

Ancient Egyptian cities have fewer walls mainly because of less need for this.

Defense.

300

The first cities developed from surplus of this product.

Food

300

This French person is associated with production of space and right to the city.

Henri Lefebvre

300

Kenneth Jackson's drive-in culture of America refers to this urban planning challenge.

Car dependency.

300

Manuel Castells said that the most important project for urban designers is creating these things.

Public spaces

300

Spatial patterns of colonial cities vary mainly based on relationship between ____ and ____.

settlers and natives

400

The world became majority urban in this decade.

2000s

400

Critically, ghettos are largely the result of spatial practices described using this adjective.

Exclusionary

400

Criticisms against the broken window theory centers around the concern that it may lead to this troubling practice.

Criminalization of disadvantage

400

Peter Hall's "Marxist ascendancy" refers to renewed attention to this, in contrast/response to earlier urban conceptions that neglect it.

Power and politics

400

The idea of "ordinary cities" is a challenge to a universalist model based on a small subset of cities referred to as this term (coined by Saskia Sassen).

World or global cities

500

According to V. Gordon Childe, what makes a city are large/dense populations, specialty occupations, governments/monuments, and these.

Systems of writing

500

Cities are sometimes referred to as engines of innovation because they facilitate the formation of this structure.

Agglomeration economies

500

The one commonality in urban experiences is the relative frequent encounter of this.

Strangers

500

This is at the heart of placemaking, and what separates places from mere spaces.

Meaning

500

World systems theory has its roots in a branch that focuses on the unequal relationship between core and periphery, also known as this.

dependency

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