Urban Growth
A city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city.
What is a Metropolitan Area
Factors include landforms, climate, availability of water, soil quality, and natural resources.
What is Site
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.
The connections between its sites and other sites.
What is Situation
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
South Africa and diamond mines
What is Site
Mexico City and Paris France are a good representation of this model.
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 tends to be divided along ethnic lines and centered around three CBD's.
What is the African City Model
The name of an urban area with 2,500-49,999 residents.
What is Urban Cluster
50% of rail freight in the US passes through Chicago.
What is Situation
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
Movements to tear down and clear out crumbling neighborhoods and former industrial zones as a means of rebuilding their 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 in every direction.
What is the Concentric-Zone Model
This country does not classify urban areas by population, but instead based on the % of men in agriculture.
What is India
(if less than 25% of working men are in agriculture it is an urban area.
Trade routes and the legendary Silk Road
What is Situation
Limitations of this model are it does not take into account real-world geography and assumes the retail market is the most important indicator of towns, cities, villages, etc...
What is Central Place Theory
Reduced commuter times, mixed use developments, social community, slowing urban sprawl, variety of transportation, and sustainability.
What is urban design or smart-growth cities
This model includes newer business centers, internal edge cities, and external edge cities located along transportation routes.
What is the Galactic City Model