Urban Models
Oceania Countries
Vocabulary
City Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Which of the following urban models has land closest to the CBD and is more expensive and exclusive to specific services/urban land use. City grows outward from center in circles surrounding the CBD?
Concentric Zone
100
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Identify the following country
New Zealand
100
In Central Place Theory, the amount of people required for a service to stay in business is called the....
Threshold
100
What kind of city is one with 10 million inhabitants? Give an example of this kind of city.
Megactiy. Ex. Cairo, Rio De Janiero, Paris
100
Define the term infrastructure and give an example
the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. Ex. Roads, schools, hospitals, Power lines.
200
Which of the following urban models suggests that a city had multiple centers or nodes of activity? Illustrates a single CBD but includes business districts that emerge in suburbs? Has a CBD, also has multiple economic hubs like edge cities.
Multiple Nuclei Model
200
New Caledonia France
200
What is smart growth?
policies combat regional sprawl by addressing issues of population density and transportation.
200
What type of city is one with over 20 million inhabitants? Give an example of this type of city.
Metacity EX. Tokyo, Mexico City, Dhaka
200
Would a central business district be a high, medium or low density area?
High
300
Which urban model Illustrates how different types of land use and housing were all located near the CBD early in a city’s history. Each type grew outward, creating wedges or sectors. Has CBD in center with wedges growing out of the CBD
Sector Model
300
Northern Mariana Islands
300
Define the term sustainability
Avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance.
300
Define the term Primate City
If the largest city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city.
300
Why do squatter settlements exist?
the result of lack of access to affordable or public housing. Also known as favelas, barriadas, shantytowns, or slums
400
Which type of urban model as suburbanization continued, inner cities began to decline. In response, some functions of the CBD began to appear in suburbs. Suburbs have parts of the CBD as well, smaller cities in suburbs surround the major city like planets in a galaxy
Galactic City Model
400
Samoa
400
What is suburban sprawl?
refers to the unrestricted suburban growth and development over large areas spreading out from a city in which cars provide primary source of transportation.
400
Define the term Edge City
a concentration of residential and economic (business, shopping, entertainment) activity located in the suburbs (also referred to as “satellite cities”)
400
If a country follows the Rank Size Rule, and the largest city is 40 million people, the next largest city would be how many million people?
20 million
500
Which type of urban model resembles a combination of the concentric and sector models and has no CBD, an old Colonial Pot Zone in its place
Southeast Asian City Model
500
Pitcairn
500
What is gentrification?
the movement of upper-middle-class people into deteriorated areas of city centers.
500
What kind of city exerts its influence far beyond its natural boundaries
A world city
500
People are migrating from ...... to which kinds of areas?
Rural to Urban areas