Urban Spatial Structure
This model chronicles the change in urban spatial structures caused by transport innovations
What is the Adams Model?
A political system that argues that the free market does not equally distribute wealth, so the government must own the means of production to ensure equal distribution
What is Socialism?
The largest prison population in the world
What is the United States?
Uses conservation and transfer zones to preserve prime farmland
What is Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)?
This era of geography, which described the uniqueness of places, was developed by Richard Hartshorne
What is Regionalism?
A model that argues that cities have multiple growth pulses
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei model?
This is the difference between what the worker earns and the value added after production
What is surplus value?
The world’s most expensive city
What is Hong Kong?
Landfills are considered to be LULU Zones, which stands for this
What is locally unwanted land use?
A school of geographical thought that is concerned with real world problems
What is the school of relevance?
Burgess’ concentric ring model identifies this as a main growth pulse in our cities
What is the central business district?
This economic theorist theorized about the free markets invisible hand
Who is Adam Smith?
The president who created the most jobs
Who is Bill Clinton?
An ad hoc, informal agreement between farmers and developers that creates small, self-sufficient communities away from prime farmland
What is planned unit developments (PUDs)?
Devon Mitchell argues that this is dying, and is being fixed to serve the more socially and economically affluent
What is the death of public space?
According to the concentric ring model, immigrants occupy this zone
What is the zone in transition?
The Marxian tradition identifies three contradictions, one of which suggests that the divisions of class labor produces unhappiness
What is the economic contradiction?
The Freeway Era was characterized by the loosening of historic urban spatial patterns thanks to this federal government initiative
What is the Federal Highway Act of 1956?
A statement of community growth goals and objectives, and spatially-patterned zoning regulations
What is a master plan?
Shared history, traditions, and social values
What is ethnicity?
An in-migration city pattern that slowly engulfs other city rings and sectors, causing a ripple of effect of outward growth.
What is invasion-succession?
What is the moral/philosophical contradiction?
Final Jeopardy: One of the most important questions of geography is the issue of scale. To understand population and migration dynamics, which scale is the most useful?
An urban planning and development tool that incentivizes growth through tax reductions
What is a tax abatement?
Hollowed vessels infused with meaning
What is language?