Models
History of Urbanization
Class, Age, Gender, Ethnicity Patterns
Characteristics of Urban Areas
World Cities
100
This model looks like concentric circles which shows the CBD at the center, and the commuter zone in the outermost circle, with a factory district, working class district, and middle class district between the two.
The Burgess Model (Concentric Zone Model)
100
The decision makers and organizers of ancient cities who controlled the resources.
Who are the urban elite?
100
The pattern describing the combination of income, education, and occupation to determine where people live. (Example: The French Quarter, the Ninth Ward)
What is Social Class?
100
Social scientist who defined a city as a "permanent settlement that has three characteristics that create living experiences for urban residents different from those of rural residents.
Who is Louis Wirth?
100
Another name for huge metropolises with populations of more than 10 million.
What are Megacities?
200
The sector model, also known as the Hoyt model, is a model of urban land use proposed in 1939 by economist Homer Hoyt. It is a modification of the concentric zone model of city development. The benefits of the application of this model include the fact it allows for an outward progression of growth.
What is the Hoyt Model?
200
Self-governing communities, established in the area around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
What are city states?
200
The pattern dependent on families, young or older, and whether or not the people are married, single, and with or without children.
What is Age and Marital Status?
200
The reason most urban dwellers can know only a small percentage of other residents, compared to rural dwellers who know almost everyone nearby.
What is Large Size?
200
The only American megacity to be listed in the top ten in 2008.
What is New York City? (New York/Newark)
300
This model combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. It includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors.
What is the Griffin-Ford (Latin American) Model?
300
This Roman-ruled area incorporated the Mediterranean shores, and a large part of Europe, North Africa, and former Mesopotamian lands.
What is the Urban Empire?
300
The trend which leads to either feminization of power, or an unequal power relationships between the sexes.
What is Gender?
300
Since people in cities have highly specialized jobs, this allows allows a large number of people to live in one area, competing for space, and leading to higher property and rent prices.
What is High Density?
300
This is the largest megacity on Earth, and has been for decades.
Where is Tokyo, Japan?
400
This model shows similar land-use patterns among medium sized cities of Southeast Asia. Its focal point is the old colonial port zone. The model does not find any CBD in asia, but rather he found elements of the CBD present as separate clusters surrounding the port zone.
What is McGhee Model?
400
The greatest trading city of south Asia during the 11th century.
What is Hangzhou?
400
A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group.
What are Race?
400
The characteristic in which large settlements include people with diverse backgrounds.
What is Social Heterogeneity?
400
The three central services which are used to determine world cities.
What are business, consumer, and public services?
500
This model shows a spatial generalization of the large, late-twentieth-century city in the United States. It is a widely dispersed, multicentered metropolis consisting of increasingly independent zones or realms, each focused on its own suburban downtown; the only exception is the shrunken central realm, which is focused on the Central Business District (CBD).
What is the Urban Realms Model?
500
Cities in the preindustrial world, which became large urban centers for a whole cultural region.
What are Primate Cities?
500
The fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition.
What is Ethnicity?
500
The large megalopolis spreading along the east coast of the US.
What is "Bosnywash?"
500
The organization/entity who created the term, "megacities" to describe the nineteen metropolises with populations over 10 million.
Who is the United Nations?
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