Multiple Choice
The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, including transportation networks, utilities, communication systems, and public services.
What is infrastructure?
More developed countries are going through urbanization.
What is true?
In rank size rule, the second largest city is ________ the population of the largest city.
What is half?
If the largest city within a country were to have a population of 200, what is the population of the second largest city?
What is 100?
Define "urban sprawl
What is urban sprawl is the unplanned, low-density expansion of cities into surrounding rural areas, often leading to car dependency and environmental degradation?
A city that serves as the dominant urban center within a country or region, typically overshadowing other cities in terms of population, economic activity, political influence, and cultural significance.
What is a primate city?
Urbanization is solely caused by people moving from rural areas to cities.
What is false?
According to central place theory, if Sugar Land has a population of 50,000 people, and Richmond also has a population of 50,000 people, then they would have the same size _________ (think shape) on a model.
What is a hexagon?
If the largest city within a country has a population of 8,000 people. According to rank-size what would be the population size of the fourth largest city?
What is 1,000?
Compare a rank-size rule city and a primate city.
Rank-size rule system consists of a more proportional and even distribution of the population of the cities in a country. A primate city is a city with one city having an extremely large population shadowing over the cities in the country. They both have a city that is largely populated compared to the rest of the cities in the country.
The disproportionate exposure of certain populations, often minority or low-income communities, to environmental hazards, pollution, and degradation.
What is environmental injustice?
In developing countries, the impoverished populations are located on the periphery whereas in developed countries, majority of the impoverished population are located in the middle of the periphery because that is where majority of the factories are located.
What is false? This is because impoverished populations are located in the middle in developed countries.
A _________ is a large city and all the areas around it that are connected, like suburbs and towns.
What is a metropolitan area?
According to the Rank-Size Rule, the population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban system. If the largest city in a country has a population of 4,000,000, what would be the expected population of the 4th largest city?
What is 1,000,000?
Describe two reasons why people might move from rural areas to urban areas (cities). Write at least 3 sentences.
What is people move to cities because there are more jobs and better schools. Cities also have hospitals, stores, and fun places to go like parks and movie theaters. Some people move to be closer to family or for better transportation.
The spatial separation of different ethnic or racial groups within urban areas, often resulting from discriminatory practices, socioeconomic factors, or cultural preferences.
What is ethnic segregation?
A suburb is usually more crowded and has taller buildings than the downtown part of a city.
What is false? (Suburbs are usually less crowded with more space and smaller buildings compared to the downtown area.)
Edge city is a large ________ hub of commercial and office space usually at the juncture of major transportation routes.
What is Regional?
If the largest city in a country has a population of 1,000,000, what would be the population of the fourth-largest city according to the rank-size rule?
What is 250,000?
Describe the environmental impacts that come with urban sprawl.
Some possible responses of environmental impacts would be that it adds more to carbon emissions because urban sprawl increases the use of automobiles. Another response is that it is inefficient land use due to the fact that it is spread out. Also, a response could be that urban sprawl causes larger areas of land for people to occupy (larger houses and backyards).
An urban planning and design movement that promotes walkable neighborhoods, mixed land uses, traditional architecture, and sustainable development principles, with a focus on creating vibrant and inclusive communities.
What is new urbanism?
The gentrification process lowers property values and taxes in the existing neighborhoods.
What is false?
The ___ ring is is the zone of transition in the concentric zone model.
What is 5th?
If New York has a population of 1 million and is the largest populated city in the U.S. According to rank-size rule, what would be the population size of the 5th largest city?
What is 200,000?
Explain one potential effect of gentrification on a neighborhood.
What is Displacement of residents, rising property values, changes in local business, racial and social tensions, changes in community culture?