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Urban Structure Models
100
Using concentric rings it illustrates land use in agricultural production based on transportation costs.
What is Von Thünen model?
100
A metropolitan area with 10 million residents.
What is Mega city?
100
Special services provided by highly educated and skilled professionals. Surgeons, Lawyers, to name a few workers in this industry sector.
What is quaternary?
100
This theory explains the distribution of goods and services across a region. Considers two main factors, threshold and range.
What is Christallers Central Place Theory?
100
The number of people needed in an area that justifies the location of a business with goods and services is known as this term in Human geography and business.
What is Threshold?
100
Demonstrates outward projection of residential growth from the CBD in wedge shaped sectors. Heavily influenced by development of transportation lines such as railroads, streetcars (trolleys).
What is Hoyt Sector Model?
200
Shifting cultivation, cattle ranching are typically associated with this agricultural system which requires few inputs but large amounts of land.
What is extensive agriculture?
200
Main influential and most populated city with a disproportional size to its next largest city in a country. London, Paris, Mexico City etc.
What is primate city?
200
A Mill which processess timber into lumber occupies this economic sector.
What is secondary?
200
The uncontrolled spread of cities and residential areas spreading onto valuable agricultural land is known as this phenomenon.
What is Urban Sprawl?
200
Two factors of settlement patterns and urban growth: One deals primarily with natural characteristics, the other is about the relative location, connectivity, and importance of the area relative to its surrounding.
What is site and situation?
200
A post industrial model of North American cities which relies on automobile dependent cities, and the surrounding beltways of a CBD leading to independent edge cities and suburban growth.
What is the Galactic city model / Peripheral model?
300
An agricultural system characterized by high yield, and high inputs; dairy farming, market gardening and other ag activities requiring small amounts of land. Typically associated with close proximity to markets.
What is intensive agricultural systems?
300
The ancient city of Constantinople was once the commercial hub along the Silk Road; today this city is named this which sits on the Bosporus Strait connecting the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is Istanbul?
300
A multi-national corporation Chief Executive Officer is working in this sector of the economy.
What is Quinary?
300
Austin and Dallas have seen major growth in the areas around their respective CBD. Development of independent edge cities and the surrounding areas are known as this.
What is Suburban / suburbanization?
300
When countries have cities with relatively proportional population sizes relative to the next largest city in a predictable manner. Such as 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 of the next largest city etc.
Typical of developed countries, but not always.
What is Rank-Size rule?
300
Includes zones of in situ accretion, zone of squatter settlements known as Periferico.
What is Griffin-Ford Model of Latin American City?
400
Agricultural activity primarily for family or community consumption.
What is subsistence agriculture?
400
Two major metropolitan areas in China: One is known for financial and commercial activities the other is the political center of the country fall under this massive hyper-connected urban regions, linking adjacent metropolitan areas with more than 20 million total population.
What are meta cities?
400
Market oriented industries such as bottling soda or automobile production.
What are bulk-gaining industries.
400
The term used to describe an explosion of population and size of the outer areas of a city.
What is a boomburb?
400
This urban structure model is outdated, only applicable to certain North America cities and based on early 20th century Chicago and does not take urban renewal and gentrification into consideration. Includes Zone of Transition, Working class zone, residential zone and a Commuter zone in concentric
What is Burgess Concentric model?
500
This urban structure model includes a seaport of commercial and trade activity replaces the traditional CBD.
What is the Southeast Asian model?
500
Industries which are located near material and sources because the production decreases bulk and size
What is bulk-reducing industries
500
High income residential areas located outside of traditional suburban areas. Mansions, multiple acre estates etc.
What are exurbs?
500
The evolution of cities and improved transportation has created outlying business districts apart from the original CBD. Rapidly growing cities develop centers with various economic or transportation activities, and thus giving rise to this urban structure model with people having greater mobility in the mid 20th century.
What is Multiple Nuclei Model?