Vocab
The specific physical characteristics and attributes of a location where a settlement or urban area is situated.
What is site?
Theories: what term best relates to central place theory?
Hinterlands
Bid Rent
Weber
Cane sugar
None of the above
What are hinterlands?
What type of city has a population exceeding 20 million?
Megacities
Metropolitan
Megapolis
Metacities
Gentrified areas
What are metacities?
What is urban sprawl mostly caused by?
A) People planting more trees
B) Cities growing outward into rural areas
C) Factories closing down
D) Everyone riding bicycles
What are cities growing outward into rural areas?
Which of the following choices are accurate about the Latin American Model?
a.) There is a spine of agriculture which is inhabited by wealthy populations.
b.) The periphery of the model is characterized by suburbs with middle-class residents.
c.) The core of the city is characterized by high-class residents.
d.) This model is an accurate representation of Latin America now.
What is the core of the city is characterized by high-class residents?
The extent to which an environment is friendly and accessible for people to walk.
What is walkability?
According to the rank-size rule, if a country has three cities, and the largest city has 1,000,000 residents, what would be the approximate population of the second-largest city?
What is 500,000?
Some scholars argue that megacities like Lagos, Dhaka, and Mumbai are becoming so powerful that they function more like independent economic zones. This term describes cities that dominate global finance and culture.
A.primate cities
B.world cities
C.Metroplitan
D.megaplois
What are world cities (b)?
Which of the following is a major consequence of urban sprawl in the United States?
A. Decreased dependency on automobiles
B. Increase in public transportation use
C. Decline in suburban development
D. Increased traffic congestion and air pollution
E. Higher population density in urban cores
What is increased traffic congestion and air pollution (D)?
Which of the following best describes the pattern of land use in the Burgess Concentric Zone Model?
A. Linear development along transportation corridors
B. Multiple centers for different activities
C. Circular zones radiating outward from a central business district (CBD)
D. Segregated ethnic zones arranged in sectors
E. Irregular shapes influenced by physical geography
What are Circular zones radiating outward from a central business district (CBD) (C)?
Abandoned or underutilized industrial or commercial sites, often contaminated with hazardous substances, which may require cleanup or redevelopment before they can be reused.
What are brownfields?
What is the theory that the main idea is the services in cities need to have a reach to attract people to them, and the more specialized they are, the more central in the city they are and the more expensive they are and is created by Walter Christaller in 1933?
Central place theory
Bid rent theory
Rank size rule
Urbanization
What is central place theory (1)?
Which choice best shows differences between world cities and metacites?
A. Metacities are regional economic centers, while world cities are global economic centers.
B. Metacities have rapid growth and urban sprawl while world cities display more suburbanization.
C. Metacities are more common in MDC while world cities are more common in LDC
D. Metacities are defined by their population size while world cities are defined by their global influence culturally, economically, and politically.
E. Metacities are areas with limited resources, while world cities are located in areas with lots of resources
What is metacities are defined by their population size while world cities are defined by their global influence culturally, economically, and politically.
Which of the following is an environmental consequence of urban sprawl?
(a) Increased population density
(b) Decreased air pollution
(c) Deforestation and habitat loss
(d) Reduced traffic congestion
(e) Less public transport
What is deforestation and habitat loss?
What is located on the periphery of Latin America model?
A. commuter zones/ suburban areas
B. higher-income residential areas
C. lower-income housing, transportation hubs, and industrial zones
D. large suburban residential and business areas
E. squatter settlements and slums
What are squatter settlements and slums?
The term for a real estate practice where agents or developers use fearmongering tactics, often based on racial bias, to induce panic selling in a neighborhood, typically targeting white homeowners.
What is blockbusting?
Which answer choice best differentiate bid rent theory and concentric zone model?
Bid rent theory explains how rent prices increases as you go farther out of the CBD while concentric zone model explains land functions
Bid Rent theory explain how rent prices increases as you get closer in proximity to the commuter zone while the concentric zone model explains how services function based on threshold and range
Bid rent theory explains how rent price increases as you go in closer proximity to the CBD while Concentric zone model explains how land functions based around rings.
Bid rent theory explain how land is uses based around sectors while concentric zone model explains explains how how the city is centered around multiple CBDs
A and C
What is Bid rent theory explains how rent price increases as you go in closer proximity to the CBD while Concentric zone model explains how land functions based around rings?
Most cities have a majority of their population in the agricultural sector. However, as the cities develop, they experience rapid industrialization which leads to most of their inhabitants moving towards the city. Which of the following are an example of this in a city that is present to this day?
a.) Mumbai, India
b.) Los Angeles, California
c.) Toronto, Canada
d.) Tokyo, Japan
e.) Paris, France
What is Mumbai, India (A)?
The United States is a prime example of urban sprawl. Which of the following is an effect of urban sprawl?
a.) It causes cities that once had spread out factories, to be clustered together to make a central business district.
b.) It causes cities to rely on public transportation as their means of getting around the city.
c.) It causes cities to shift from a high-density population to a low-density population.
d.) It leads to cities having a greater interaction with other cities that have similar size and population to them.
e.) It leads to a smaller ecological footprint within the atmosphere.
What causes cities to shift from a high-density population to a low-density population (C)?
The model is based off 5 rings, divided with distribution of different social groups that expand outward in rings. Which ring would represent the commuters zone?
What is the fifth ring?
The process of population and economic growth, as well as land development, spreading from urban centers into surrounding suburban areas, typically resulting in the expansion of residential, commercial, and industrial zones.
What is suburbanization?
Central Place Theory is a theory that was created by Walter Christaller. However, cities have changed as time progresses and there are some flaws that this theory has. Which of the following are not one of the assumptions that this model makes?
a.) It makes the assumption that there is no physical geography.
b.) It makes the assumption that people will always purchase items that are within the closest proximity to them.
c.) It makes the assumption that areas that have the population and size are located near each other.
d.) It makes the assumption that items of different values have the same reach.
What is the assumption that items of different values of the same reach (d)?
According to the rank-size rule, if a country has three cities, and the largest city has 1,000,000 residents, what would be the approximate population of the second-largest city?
What is 500,000?
Which of the following is the best example of urban sprawl
A large influx of single-family homes being built rapidly outside the CBD, but limited public transportation forces workers to commute long distances to their jobs in the CBD
Cities start to renovate the interior of their cities and have growth in edge cities
Rapid and uncontrolled spreading of agriculture in the periphery
All of the above
None of the above
What is a large influx of single-family homes being built rapidly outside the CBD, but limited public transportation forces workers to commute long distances to their jobs in the CBD?
The African model has a lot of characteristics that separate it from other world problems. Which of the following is an example of one of these characteristics?
a.) It has three cbds which are colonial, traditional, and business.
b.) The periphery is characterized by wealthy residents.
c.) There is no Central business district because the model demonstrates the effects of urban sprawl.
d.) Shantytowns are typically inhabited by farmers that moved to the urban area in order to find better work.
e.) The middle of the model is characterized by agriculture.
What are shantytowns that are typically inhabited by farmers that moved to the urban area in order to find better work (b)?