Origin & Influences of Urbanization
This is a city with a population of over 20,000,000
What is a metacity?
These cities are centers of trade, finance, information, and migration around the globe
What is a world city?
This is a set of interdependent cities or urban places connected by networks
What is an urban system?
Looks at the utility or usefulness of a place for specific groups and its accessibility to those groups
What is the Bid-Rent Theory?
New urbanism is designed to model cities from this region of the world.
What is Europe?
This is an absolute location of an area or region on Earth
What is a site?
High residential areas that are within the bounds of a city with a fence or gate around the area
What is a gated community?
This rule states that population of a settlement/city is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy
What is the rank-size rule?
A zone that offers very few services and is home to the very poor
What is the disamenity sector?
Sometimes known as “snob zoning,” attempts to keep low- to moderate-income people out of a neighborhood.
What is exclusionary zoning?
These are hubs of business, entertainment, and shopping in suburban areas
What are edge cities?
These were the only three world cities in 1991
What are New York, London, and Tokyo?
This city is much larger than any other city in the country and dominates that country's economic, political, and cultural life
What is a primate city?
This model depicts the internal structure of urban areas by illustrating rings of factories of production & different residential zones expanding outward from a central business district
What is the Burgess Concentric Zone Model?
Process for restoring abandoned industrial sites for reuse.
What is brownfield remediation?
These two elements were important to the change from an agricultural society to an urban society
What are agricultural surplus & socioeconomic stratification?
These 3 services focus on harbors, airports, railroads, and roadways; influential media organizations, local news, and information services; stock exchanges, bond markets, and links to corporate headquarters of international companies.
What are transportation services, communication systems, and business services?
This model states that the closer two things are, the more influence they will have on each other
What is the gravity model?
This model focused on transportation and communication as the drivers of the city’s layout
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
Refers to municipal and county planning ordinances that require a given share of new construction to be affordable for people with low to moderate incomes.
What is inclusionary zoning?
These two sources are where urban growth comes from
What is the migration of people from rural areas to cities & natural population increase?
This city was important to Europe as a source of cod in the 14th and 15th centuries
What is Bergen, Norway?
This assumption regards the surface area of Christaller's Central Place Theory
What is an isotropic plain?
Developed in the 1960s by various geographers, including Harris.
What is the Galactic City Model?
Grants municipalities oversight over federally funded development projects on farmland to minimize the effect of federal programs on the unnecessary and irreversible conversion of farmland to nonagricultural uses?
What is the Farmland Protection Policy Act?