Urban Basics & Site/Situation
The process of people moving into cities and forming dense settlements.
What is urbanization?
Poorly planned, low‑density development surrounding a city.
What is urban sprawl?
The minimum population needed to support a service.
What is threshold?
A city with a population of 10 million or more.
What is a megacity?
The scale of analysis shown when comparing multiple cities within a country.
What is regional scale?
A city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is an urban area?
The invention that contributed most to suburban sprawl.
What is the automobile?
The maximum distance people will travel for a service.
What is range?
The country with the most megacities in 2018.
What is China?
A model that predicts interaction between cities based on population and distance.
What is the gravity model?
A city’s connection to trade routes and other places refers to this concept.
What is situation?
A suburban commercial center with offices, retail, and amenities
What is an edge city?
A high‑order service with a high threshold and long range.
What is a museum (or stadium/major hospital)?
The country projected to add the most megacities by 2030.
What is India?
According to the gravity model, Delhi has a stronger relationship with Kolkata than with Rajkot because of this.
What is population size (and distance)?
The ancient city of Tenochtitlán is now known as this modern city.
What is Mexico City?
Developing vacant parcels within already built‑up areas.
What is infill development?
According to CPT, larger settlements are spaced farther apart because they need this.
What are larger market areas?
The continent with the fewest megacities in 2018.
What is Europe?
A global city that serves as a major economic and cultural hub.
What is a world city?
Chicago’s rapid growth in the 1800s was most influenced by this transportation system.
What are railroads?
Low‑density communities beyond the suburbs, often rural‑feeling but commuter‑based.
What are exurbs?
If the largest city has 8 million people, the second largest should have about 4 million according to this rule.
What is the rank‑size rule?
The megacity located in Pakistan.
What is Karachi?
A limitation of CPT in modern cities is that it assumes this type of landscape.
What is flat, uniform geography?