Urban Land Use
Which type of urban land use is most common on the periphery of cities in Latin America?
Squatter settlements
What term refers to the size and functional complexity of cities?
Urban hierarchy
Which would have the smallest range: a grocery store or a university?
A grocery store
What is the process of wealthier residents moving into a neighborhood, renovating it, and making it unaffordable for existing residents?
Gentrification
In which type of settlement do most of the United States and Canadian population live?
Cities
Which model of urban structure depicts a commercial spine bordered by an elite residential sector extending outward from the central business district?
Latin American city model
Rapid urbanization and inability of infrastructure to keep pace with the growth of megacities in developing countries has led to the development of what?
Squatter settlements
According to central place theory, what is defined as the minimum number of people needed to support a service?
Threshold
A megacity is a city with at least how many people?
10 million
What is defined as the exact position of a place on Earth?
Absolute location
Which model best represents an old colonial port zone and its surrounding commercial districts?
Southeast Asian city model
Which model best describes the quantity of interactions between cities, based upon city size and distances between cities?
Gravity model
According to central place theory, what is defined as the maximum distance a consumer will travel to acquire a good or service?
Range
Which type of city resulted from rapid suburban growth and the expansion of retail areas, office developments, business centers, and corporate headquarters to provide jobs and services in suburban areas?
Edge city
The building of interstate highways, the G.I. Bill of Rights, prefabricated construction, and the desire for more space all contributed to the development of what in the 1950s?
Suburbs
In the development of urban land, what is typically built on the most accessible sites?
Retail complexes
According to the sector model of North American city structure, who tends to live in linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward?
Low-income residents
If the largest city is two times the population of the next-largest city, which rule is the country said to be following?
Rank-size rule
What is a city called that is disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country?
Primate city
International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of which type of city?
World city
What defining feature are most Latin American cities focused on?
A central plaza
Of the three traditional North American urban models, which one tends to be most applicable to newer, faster-growing cities?
Multiple-nuclei model
Who developed the theory useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland?
Christaller
Mixed-use development, pedestrian-friendly design, and the incorporation of front porches and alleys are design elements of which movement in urban planning?
New urbanism
What were two locational advantages important to the development of the earliest cities?
Productive agricultural land and defensible sites