Developed by Burgess. Includes a Central Business District and is dynamic and changing.
What is Concentric Zone Model?
100
This is when the largest settlement in a country has more than twice the number as the second ranking city. Examples are Paris and London.
What is Primate City Rule?
100
Total value of goods and services produced by a country in a year.
What is GNP?
100
When real estate agents convinced African American families to buy houses in white neighborhoods.
What is blockbusting?
100
This means "country behind" and it is the surrounding area of a city.
What is hinterlands?
200
Homer Hoyt focused more on residential patterns and the level of income of families. He believed that 'pie shaped' described the pattern.
What is Sector model?
200
This states that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank. Ex: largest city has 12 million the second largest will have 6 million
What is Rank Size Rule?
200
Who made the ladder of Development in the 1960s?
Who is Walt Rostow?
200
This is spread by mosquito mostly to young children in Africa.
What is malaria?
200
What is missing in order from smallest to largest? hamlet _____1____, town, ___2______, metropolis, ___3_______
1. village 2. city 3. megalopolis
300
Harris and Ullman created this in the 1940s in response to rapid suburbanization.
What is multiple nuclei model?
300
Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
What is urban sprawl?
300
What stage in Rostow's model is industrialization, increase in urbanization?
What is stage 3?
300
NAFTA was made between what 3 countries?
What is US, Mexico, and Canada?
300
He worked with the Nazis to come up with a more effiient way to structure cities.
Who is Walter Christaller?
400
Three of the five hearths of urbanization.
What is Mesopotamia, Nile Valley, Indus River Valley, China, or Mesoamerica?
400
a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system. The theory was created by the German geographer Walter Christaller.
What is central place theory?
400
Name 3 of the five barriers of development.
What is social problems, foreign debt, political instability, widespread disease, or cost of economic development?
400
Opening factories outside of the US because of cheaper labor is know as this.
What is outsourcing?
400
The 'spine' and 'mall' are heavily connected to the CBD. Disamenity sectors contain barrios and favelas.
What is the Latin American City Model or Griffin Ford model?
500
An example of this model would be Gwinnett County.
What is Urban Realms Model?
500
This is the downtown heart of the central city and is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce and the clustering of the tallest buildings
What is CBD? (Central Business District)
500
a general term for economic development models which assume that 1) all countries are capable of developing economically in the same way and 2) economic disparities between countries and regions are the result of short-term inefficiencies in local or regional market forces
What is liberal model?
500
In terms of the core-periphery model, which of the following are the least powerful regions and therefore are often marginalized or under control of other regions?
What is peripheral regions?
500
the movement of upper and middle class people from urban areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual)