Unit 5 Jeopardy Review

Rural Urban Connections/Urban Sustainability

100

• Goal: make enough food to survive,
  selling for profit is secondary

Subsistence agriculture

200

Goal: grow enough cash crops for profit

Commercial agriculture

300

• Residential and commercial areas combined together 🡺 easy access to goods & services, less traffic, better environment, higher prices of realities

Mixed use neighborhoods

400

“abandoned land that has been left polluted by last occupants”

Brownfields

500

Crops & animals grown without chemicals and in sustainable way
- multicropping or crop rotation, no wasting water, no pesticides for crops
- animals without growth hormones, in open spaces 🡺 healthier / tastier

Organic Food

Cities and Globalization Size & Distribution of Cities

100

Large city of global importance with many connections to cities globally

World City = Global City

200

“Explains spatial distribution of goods & services across the region”

Central Place Theory

300

• How many people need to be within range to
  keep production of goods / services profitable

Threshold

400

• Maximum distance people are willing to travel
  to get goods / service (or to come to city)

• Depends on uniqueness of goods & size of city

Range

500

• Area with socio-economic ties to central place

• Market Area / Hinterland

Density and Land Use &Infrastructure/ Internal Structures of Cities

100

• Density of people & houses changes with increasing distance from CBD

Density gradient

200

• skyscrapers, banks, lawyers, government,… are all in this area

Central Business District

300

(factories & workers’ homes, noise + air pollution)

Industrial Zone

400

(housing for the rich / middle income people)

Residential Zone

500

• Setting height limit on buildings to keep original cultural landscape

• Urban infilling: increasing residential density in suburbs (= no urban sprawl)

Ex: height limits in European cities 🡺 few skyscrapers in historical centers

Government Policies

Cities Across the World

100

cities with more than 10 million people

Mega Cities

200

• “suburban settlement growing at fast pace while keeping its suburban feel”

• Can get bigger population than some cities

Boomburbs

300

• “prosperous residential settlement outside suburban area, but still with connections to suburban region / edge cities”

• Internet & modern technologies 🡺 work from home 🡺 rise of exurbs

Exurbs

400

• “cities that form their own, distinct economic district, in outskirts of big cities”

• Often located near major roads / highways & connected with “beltway”

• Economic districts tend to specialize (ex: university town/transportation hub)

Goods & services available in edge cities 🡺 no need to go to downtown

Edge Cities

500

“unrestricted growth of urban areas & suburbs over large area of land”

Urban Sprawl

Challenges of Urban Change

100

 little income + no car + no supermarket 🡺 health issues

Food Deserts

200

“white communities migrate out of cities as minorities get in”

• - in Rust Belt USA (Detroit, Cleveland, etc.), Kowloon in HK

White Flight

300

• “banks refusing loans to urban areas deemed too risky”
      - often African-Americans & minorities 🡺 vicious circle of poverty
      - white areas got cheaper loans 🡺 easier to make wealth
      - not allowed anymore, but effects still remain

Redlining

400

“zones abandoned by their previous owners due to
       economic or environmental reasons” (ghost towns in west US)

Zones of Abandonment

500

• “one ethnic group sells their houses at cheaper rate out of
          fear that another ethnic group moves in and decreases the
          value of the property”
      - real agents bought houses from the white in USA and rented /
         sold it to minorities at higher price in 1950s-60s

Blockbusting