Urban Planning
The Difficult Category
Characteristics of Canadian Cities
Terminology
Industry
100
This model, developed by Burgess describes layout of metropolitan areas
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
100
The biggest CMA in Alberta
What is Edmonton?
100
This city has the highest population of people of asian/oriental origin
What is Vancouver?
100
Towns that have been abandoned after the depletion of resources and total collapse of the economy
What is a Ghost Town?
100
Single industry towns are susceptible to this cycle
What is the Boom-Bust cycle?
200
It's the biggest factor for population growth in most Canadian cities
What is immigration?
200
How many people must live in a city for it to before classified as a CMA?
100,000
200
This city is home to Canada's naval headquarters
What is Halifax?
200
What is a CMA?
Census Metropolitan Area
200
Single industry towns are most often associated with this sector of the economy
What is the Primary Sector?
300
This is situated at the centre of concentric zone model of urban development
What is the Central Business District?
300
It's the largest CMA that is not a provincial capital
What is Vancouver?
300
This city has the highest percentage of employees in the primary sector
What is Calgary?
300
This factor entices people to move into cities
What is Urban Pull?
300
Quebec is home to some of the world's largest deposits of this
What is asbestos?
400
CBD is often surrounded by a light occurence of these types of operations
What is manufacturing?
400
It was this year that the percentage of Canadians living in urban settings overtook the percentage of Canadians living in rural settings
What is 1920?
400
This city has the highest percentage of employees in tertiary sector
What is Ottawa-Hull? (Halifax also accepted)
400
This factor may force people from the countryside
What is rural push?
400
Manufacturing and Construction industries are typical of this sector of the economy
What is the secondary sector?
500
This organization's mission statement is to encourage better understanding of urban issues in business & government
What is the Canadian Urban Institute?
500
what percentage of Canadians live in the 25 largest urban centres
60%
500
This city and it's surrounding cities are the heart of the secondary sector (manufacturing) of Canada
What is Toronto?
500
This sector of the economy provides services to businesses and people
What is the Tertiary sector?
500
Several New Brunswick towns have gone "bust" because of the downturn of this industry
What is pulp and paper? (logging)
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