Defintions😯
What is a Megacity?
What is a city with a population of over 10 million people.
What is the difference between a megacity and a metacity?
What is a megacity with a population over 10 million, and a metropolis with a population over 20 million?
What is the model displayed on slide 2?
What is the Latin American City Model?
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city's population is 1 million, then what is the 2nd largest city's population?
What is 500,000?
What is a site?
The exact location of a settlement and the physical land and features on which it is built.
What is an edge city?
What is a city located on the outskirts of a larger city.
What is the difference between an exurb and an edge city?
Exurbs are mainly for housing and settling down and are located outside of suburbs, plus they are rural, all while edge cities are located on the outskirts of cities and have commercial centers, office space, and retail complexes; they are often found in urban areas.
What is the model displayed on slide 3?
What is the African City Model?
In the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has 12 million people, about how many people should live in the 3rd largest city?
What is 4 million people?
What is situations?
Connections between different sites mean that a city’s relative location often determines its use.
What is a primate city?
What is a city that is the largest, most dominant, and most populous in a country or region?
What is the difference between urban sprawl and suburbanization?
Urban sprawl = car-dependent development spreading over rural land at the edges of a city, causing unplanned expansion of urban areas outward.
Suburbanization = the movement of people from the inner city to the suburbs.
What is the model displayed on slide 4?
What is the Southeast Asian City Model?
This word means the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural land, often creating car-dependent, low-density communities.
What is urban sprawl?
What is the bidrent theory?
The value of land is influenced by its distance from the market center.
What is an exurb?
What is an area outside the suburbs that is rural, residential, and very transportation-reliant?
This rule predicts how city sizes are distributed in a country, while this type of city is so much larger and more dominant than others that it breaks that rule.
What is the rank-size rule and primate cities?
What is the model displayed on slide 5?
What is the Galactic City Model?
True or False
If a country's primate city has a population of 1 million, then the 2nd-largest city's population is 500,000.
What is false?
This term describes the area of built-up land that includes the city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is the metropolitan area?
What is a boomburb?
What is a suburb that has grown quickly into a large and populated city with more than 100,000 residents?
This type of rapidly growing suburban city has more than 100,000 residents, while this type of community is primarily residential, rural, and located beyond the suburbs
hint- on the outside of cities
What is the difference between a boomburb and an exurb?
What is the model displayed on slide 6?
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model?
This word means when upper-class people move into lower-income neighborhoods and renovate the houses, leaving the original residents displaced.
What is gentrification?
This term describes smaller towns and cities that grow rapidly along highways or major roads just outside a central city.
What are edge cities?