Vocab
What were the Jim Crow laws?
Laws that created segregation within America.
What model is characterized as hexagon-sized places around a business?
Central place theory
Megacity definition
Central Business District, main economic area in a city
Coencentric Zone Model
What is a metacity?
Pop. exceeds 20m
What is an exurb?
A remote suburb that is not dependent on a major city
Built in sectors
Sector model
What are world cities and give an example of one
A world city is a city playing a major part in the world economy (examples may vary, but consider one to be like NYC)
What is white flight?
white people moving out of neighborhoods due to blockbusting
Has "2" CBD's, one colonial, one traditional
Sub-saharan African model
What term describes when cities grow into surrounding rural areas?
Urban sprawl
Name all 5 of Borcherts Epochs.
1) Sail-Wagon Epoch (pre-1800), 2) Iron Horse Epoch (1800-1870), 3) Steel Rail Epoch (1870-1920), 4) Auto-Air-Amenity Epoch (1920-1970), and 5) Satellite-Electronic-Jet Propulsion Epoch (1970-present).
Different towns and urban areas are connected around the city with a beltway
Galactic model
People decide to move farther from the CBD of an city to a more spread-out, residential area, still in the metro area of the city
Suburbanization