City Models
This person created the concentric zone model?
Ernest Burgess
How many Hearths of urban Revolution are there?
six
Unplanned developments of crude dwellings and shelters made of mostly wood, iron, and pieces of cardboard
What are zoning laws?
The process of dividing and designating areas of a city to allow different kinds of development.
what is a trade area?
an area inside of cities and towns where people come to shop and trade for goods.
Which model is pie shaped?
Sector Model
Where is Mesopotamia?
Between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers
what is functional zonation?
the division of a city into different zones for different purposes
What are Teardowns?
when an older house is replaced by a newer and or bigger house.
what is the central place theory?
it is a theory that tries to predict where future cities and towns will go
Which model has many separate nuclei?
The Multiple Nuclei model
What revolutionized from the Nile River Valley?
Irrigation
What is a Suburb?
An outlying functionally uniform part of an urban area.
what is gentrification?
The rehabilitation of low income houses in low income neighborhoods
what is the rank-size rule?
it is a model that predicts the population on smaller cities by using proportions
Which model focused on South American cities?
Griffin-Ford Model
what year was the Third urban hearth (Indus River Valley)?
2200 BCE
what is Suburbanization?
The process in which places that were previously outside of the urban area, become urbanized
What is urban sprawl?
Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses.
what is a primate city?
A country's leading city in economics and population
What is the name of the person who made the Sub-Saharan Africa city model?
T.G. McGee
Where was the last urban hearth located?
Peru
What is a megacity?
the rapid growth in the population and territorial footprint in a city
What is new urbanism?
development that creates new neighborhoods and jobs
what shape is used in the Central place theory?
Hexagons