Rise of Cities
City Proporations
Central Place
Nefarious Practices
Countries x cities
100

By 2007, more than half the world's population finally lived in cities, a process called [BLANK].

What is urbanization

100

This "Rule of Proportion" suggests that a country's nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

What is rank-size

100

If you draw a circle around a store representing the maximum distance customers will travel, you would be indicating this vocabulary word

What is range

100

Plessy v. Ferguson allowed races to be split by gate or fence for separation. The idea was overturned in Brown v. Board of Ed, outlawing [BLANK].

What is segregation

100

London, Birmingham, Manchester

What is the United Kingdom (England also acceptable)

200

While Europe and North America already have a high percentage in cities, this continent is currently seeing the fastest rate of people moving into cities.

What is Africa

200

In a balanced system, if the #1 city has 10 million people, this fraction tells you exactly how big the #2 city should be.

What is 1/2

200

To be profitable, a business needs a solid block of customers; this term describes the minimum "volume" of people required.

What is threshold

200

On old maps, banks drew a border for those they were undermining. They refused to give loans to neighborhoods through the practice of [BLANK].

What is redlining

200

Paris, Marseille, Lyon

What is France

300

As a country develops, it moves away from subsistence farming and begins to build factories and mass-produce goods, a process known as [BLANK].

What is industrialization

300

This "Rule of One" describes a single, massive city that is at least double the size of the next largest city in the country.

What is a Primate City

300

This six-sided polygon is the star of the model, chosen because it tiles perfectly without leaving any "empty holes" on the map

What is a hexagon

300

Agents tricked homeowners who were far too trusting. They used racial fear to flip houses in a process called [BLANK].

What is blockbusting

300

Berlin, Munich, Hamburg

What is Germany

400

This continent successfully urbanized most recently and is now home to the majority of the world's 10-million-plus "Megacities"

What is Asia

400

Do the Math: If a country follows the Rank-Size Rule and its #1 city has 12 million people, how many people live in the #3 city?

What is 4 million

400

Imagining the Hierarchy Triangle, reorder these services from highest order to lowest order: Gas Station (A), NFL Stadium (B), Corner Store (C)

What is NFL Stadium, High School, Gas Station

(B, C, A)

400

Many people took a suburban flight to leave the urban zones. They moved to areas where the banks would actually give out [BLANK].

What is loans

400

Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague

What is the Netherlands

500

While people in cities work in service jobs or factories, the vast majority of people living in rural, non-urban areas survive by practicing [BLANK].

What is Subsistence Agriculture (or Farming)?

500

Calculation: In a perfect Rank-Size country, if the largest city has 100,000 people, provide the exact population of the #4 city

What is 25,000

500

Name just one of the two tiniest settlements in the central place model- sitting at the bottom corners of the urban hierarchy, providing only the most basic "low-order" services

What are hamlets or villages
500

New coffee shops and high rents might seem like a sensation. But displacing the original residents is a process called [BLANK].

What is gentrification

500

Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck

What is Austria