Field note and KQ1
This affects the character and organization of urban areas
These models all have squatter settlements.
What is the McGee Model, Griffin-Ford Model, and the Colonial Model?
This region of a country is home to some of the world's most populated cities.
What is east Asia?
Define Rank-Size Rule
What is a pattern of settlements in a country?
Define the Multiple Nuclei Model
What is the multiple nuclei model is an economical model created by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman in the 1945 article "The Nature of Cities". A city consists of a collection of individual nodes, or centers, around which different types of people and activities cluster.
Recent archaeologic evidence supports this city to be the sixth urban hearth.
What is Peru?
This person created the definition of a primate city.
Who is Mark Jefferson?
This is a structural element common in South American cities. It separates the very poorest part of the city from the rest.
What is a desaminity sector?
Define central business district
What is the main business/commercial area of a city downtown?
Describe what the Southeast Asian city model explains
What is high-class residential zones stem from the center, middle-class zones are in inner-city areas and in suburbs, and low-income zones are in the periphery?
This is a public space that is the focus of commercial activity.
What is an agora?
T.G. McGee studied these size cities.
What is medium-sized cities of Southeast Asia.
This is when realtors would solicit white residents of the neighborhood to sell their homes under the guise that the neighborhood was going downhill because a black person or family had moved in.
What is block busting?
Define McMansions
What is in suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative term for a large "mass-produced" dwelling, often constructed with low-quality materials?
This model is built around an old colonial port instead of a CBD.
What is McGee Model/Southeast Asian Model
This had to happen before the second urban revolution could take place.
What is the second agricultural revolution?
These cities are prime examples of galactic cities.
What is Toronto, Canada and Los Angeles, California.
This is unrestricted growth
What is urban sprawl?
Define Mesopotamia
What is chronologically, the first of the five urbanization hearths. It is located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. There are signs of social inequality from the variants in housing. There was an established priest-king class. The ancient city in this region was usually covered by a mud wall. There were many temples. The conditions were very unsanitary?
In the Burgess Model, living spaces/residences would be located in zone...
What is Zone 4?
Name all 6 hearths of urbanization in chronological order.
What is
1) Mesopotamia
2) Nile River Valley
3) Indus River Valley
4) Huang He River Valley
5) Mesoamerica
6) Peru
Christaller laid the groundwork for central place theory in which book.
What is The Central Places in Southern Germany?
Describe why some people feel that new urbanist designs are bad
What is that they allow communities to disconnect.
Define gentrification
What is the process of renovating and improving housing or a district so that it conforms to middle-class taste?
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the concentric zone model
What is the strengths: - Many cities developed in the 1920s so this model reflects this time period?
What is the weaknesses: - Made almost 100 years ago so it doesn't reflect modern development?
- Rings don't consider environmental factors