Types of Cities
Urban Hearths and Revolutions
Central Place Theory
Urban Models
Challenges in American Cities
100

What is a densely populated urban area with a defined boundary?

What is city?

100

What urban hearth originated in 3500 BCE?

What is Mesopotamia?

100

What term describes how far you are willing to travel for a service?

What is range?

100

What Urban Model was made by Homer Hoyt in 1939?

What is Sector Model?

100

What exploits racial fears to sell and/or buy land for cheap?

What is blockbusting?

200

What is a residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city?

What is suburb?

200

What time period was the Indus River Valley?

What is 2200 BCE?

200

What is the minimum number of people needed for a city/store to operate?

What is threshold?

200

What Urban Model says is that a city is a complex structure that includes more than one center around which activities revolve.

What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?

200

What is not loaning to those in their lined area?

What is redlining?

300

What is a continuous urban complex, such as in the northeastern United States? 

What is megalopolis?

300

Which urban revolution created large, permanent settlements and cities?

What is the First Agricultural Revolution?

300

What wanted to show how and where urban areas would be functionally and spatially distributed?

What is urban hierarchy?

300

What Urban Model explains and predicts changing urban growth patterns as automobiles became increasingly prevalent and large suburban areas emerged?

What is the Urban Realms Model?

300

What is the outward expansion of urban areas?

What is urban sprawl?

400

What is a city that transitioned from a manufacturing-based economy to service, technology, and knowledge?

What is post-industrial city?

400
What is an acropolis? 

What is an ancient greek city?

400

What is a central focal point hub around which a functional region is organized?

What is node?

400

What Model says a city grows outward from a central area in a series of rings, like the growth of a tree?

What is the Concentric Zone Model?

400

What is an outward expansion of cities into surrounding areas?

What is suburbanization?

500

What is a city primarily driven by trade and commerce through international trade?

What is mercantile city?

500

What was the result of the Second Agricultural Revolution?

What was the massive shift of population from rural areas to cities during the late 19th century and early 20th century?

500

What is the area of a service (inside a hexagon)?

What is hinterland?

500

What model says that high-class residential zones stem from the center, middle-class zones are in inner city areas and in suburbs, and low-income zones are in the periphery?

What is the Southeast Asian City Model?

500

What is an outward shift from the city, low population density, and big homes?

What is exurbanization?