When and why did people start living in cities?
Where are cities located and why?
How are cities organized, and how do they function?
How do people shape cities?
The models
100

This refers to the built-up space of the central city and suburbs.

What is urban?

100

This is an adjacent region where a city's influence is dominant.

What is a trade area?

100

This is the urban area that is not suburban.

What is the central city?

100

These divide up a city.

What are zoning laws?

100

The concentric zone model was formed at this time.

What are the 1920s?

200

A small village where most of the population is involved in agriculture.

What is an agricultural village?

200

This is a country's leading city.

What is a primate city?

200

In 2000 this percentage of the country's population lived in Urban areas.

What is 50%?

200

These are fenced in neighborhoods with controlled acsees.

What are gated communities?

200

The CBD isn't the dominant nucleus in this model, as several regions have a nuclei.

What is the multiple nuclei model?

300

These are the five hearths of urbanization.

What is Mesopotamia, the Nile River Valley, the Indus River Valley, the Huang He River (yellow) Valleys, and Mesoamerica? 

300

This man came up with the Central Place Theory.

Who is Walter Christaller?

300

This is the study of city models and how they are divided into certain zones.

What is functional zonation?

300

This is the unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, etc.

What is the urban sprawl?

300

This model has 3 CBDs. 

What is the Subsaharan African model.

400

Human communities have existed for this long.

What is over 100,000 years?

400

This is the shape that the Central Place Theory follows.

What is a hexagon?

400

This is the poorest area of a city. 

What is the disamenity sector?

400

These cities tend to lack zoning laws.

What are semiperiphery cities?

400

This model put an answer to limitations of Burgess' model.

What is the sector model.

500

The second Urban Revolution was made possible by these two things.

What is the Second Agricultural Revolution and Industrialization? 

500

The rank size rule works like this.

What is a cities population being inversely proportional to their rank in the hierarchy. (ex. the second largest city is 1/2 of the largest city's population.)

500

This is the process by which lands outside of an urban area become urbanized.

What is suburbanization?

500

This is the economy that is not taxed and not counted towards a country's gross national income.

What is the informal economy?

500

This model shows enormous differences between rich and poor.

What is the Griffin-Ford Model.