Urban Growth
A city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city.
What is a Metropolitan Area
This model assumes the second largest city will have one-half the population of the largest city. The third largest city with have one-third the population of the largest city.
What is Rank-Size Rule
Parkland, agricultural land, or other type of open space maintained around an urban area.
What is Greenbelt
This model believes that U.S. cities do not grow in rings or in sectors but formed by functional regions (nodes).
What is the Multiple-nuclei model
Sometimes urban areas expand in an unplanned and uncontrolled way, covering large expanses of land in housing, commercial development, and roads.
What is Urban Sprawl.
This model takes into account the distance between cities and the size of the city to make assumptions about interactions, communication, tourism, trade and etc...
What is Gravity Model
How safe, convenient, and efficient is to walk in an urban environment.
What is walkability
This model highlights zones of peripheral settlements like disamenity and squatter.
what is the Latin American City model
The population total needed for a suburb to be called a boomburb.
What is 100,000 people
Mexico City and Paris, France are a good representation of this city rule.
What is Primate City
The government invokes a right to land tenure that overrides the individuals rights. Pay fair market value for a piece of land/property for the benefit of a community or city to build a highway, library, fire house, school or etc....
What is eminent domain.
This model argues cities tend to be divided along historic ethnic lines and include three distinct CBD's.
What is the Sub-Saharan African City Model
Explain how inclusionary zoning can help address urban ineqaulity.
changing zoning laws to include various levels of income, and therefore races, in the same area. Can increase the amount of affordable housing.
Which concept argues that the main function of cities and towns is to provide goods and services. Higher order goods (museums, sporting events) require a larger threshold and range. Where lower order goods (grocery store) require a lower threshold and range.
What is Central Place Theory
Joint effort of local govt and businesses to tear down and clear out crumbling buildings and former industrial zones as a means of revitalizing urban downtowns.
What is Urban Renewal
This model was developed around 100 years ago, assumes the rapid physical and economic expansion of a city with a diverse growing population and cheap public transportation (trains/streetcars) in every direction.
What is the Concentric-Zone Model
Explain the concept of an urban heat island
A mass of warm air generated by urban building materials and human activities which makes cities several degrees warmer than surrounding areas.
These cities are influential far beyond their borders in finance, culture, & politics.
Give an example for a bonus 500 pts
What is a World City
Ex: NYC, London, Tokyo, etc.
Reduced commuter times, mixed use developments, social community, slowing urban sprawl, variety of transportation, and sustainability are all goals of this..
What are smart-growth policies.
Also acceptable... New Urbanism
This model includes newer business centers, internal edge cities, and external edge cities located along transportation routes.
What is the Galactic City Model