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Why is the local government fragmentation an issue?
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Define Urbanization
Answer: It’s difficult to solve problems on a local and regional level, because people are trying to fight to take control.
Urbanization: Is the increase of number of people and the percentage of people living in urban settlements
Describe the difference between threshold and range.
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Define Range & Threshold
Answer: Both are parts of central place theory, threshold is the minimum amount of people needed to service, range is the maximum distance people are willing to travel to access something.
New Urbanism is designed to limit what?
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What is a CBD?
Answer: Usage of cars.
Central Business District or the economic center of the city.
EX: (Kind of like downtown in Houston).
Describe a primate city:
Answer: At Least twice as large as the second largest city in the country, is the dominant city, dominant in the country economically, politically, and culturally.
What two factors lead to the development of squatter settlements?
Answer: Rural to Urban migration for jobs, and lack of housing.
Bid-rent theory is based on what idea or principle?
Answer: Cost of land and transportation.
REMEMBER -The closer you get, the more expensive the land is, the farther away you get, the more transportation costs.
Compare population density of cities in the U.S. compared to cities in other locations worldwide.
Answer: Cities in the U.S. are less densely populated because people are living in the suburbs, they’re more spread out.
Give reasons why suburbs developed after World War 2
Answer: Increased car production, development of highway systems, increased housing construction, and availability of loans because most people fought in the military.
What is the main determining influence of the Sector model?
Answer: Transportation.
Newly developed retail and office space is being constructed where?
Answer: Edge cities.
What is a negative consequence of gentrification:
Answer: It makes it more expensive for already existing residents, reduces low-cost housing, and forces people to move because they can’t afford to stay anymore.
Most Americans live in what kind of area?
Answer: 80 percent of people in the U.S. live in a Metropolitan area.
Where does suburbanization occur?
Answer: In counties surrounding the cities.
What is the outcome of blockbusting?
Answer: Its racial and ethnic composition changes.
What kind of features/services typically need to be located at the most accessible locations.
Answer: Retail
Mixed-use and walkable neighborhoods are two examples of what approach?
Answer: Smart Growth policies.
Models of Latin American cities can be placed in what two categories?
Answer: Colonial and post-independence.
REMEMBER -Colonial cities have a religious center, and post-independence have different neighborhoods for people based on classes.
Define Zoning:
Where you only use the land that it was bought for that reason only. It causes segregation, it separates the place of where people life, from where people work
Almost every city has zoning laws.
What is the main determining factor that gives world cities their influence?
Answer: They control economic factors and more
Describe rank-size rule
nth largest city will be 1/n the population of the largest city.
Define ALL WORDS FOR 1000 Points
Smart Growth
New Urbanism
Mixed-Use
Smart Growth: Regulations designed to prevent/limit urban sprawls.
New Urbanism: Is based on the principle/usage of mixed-use space. (both residential and commercial stuff)
Mixed-Use - Both residential and commercial places in close proximity to each other.
How does the development of public transportation benefit the environment?
Answer: Because less people will drive cars, which results in less pollution.
Which model is based around the concept that there’s more than one foci?
Answer: Multiple-nuclei model.
High levels of accessibility are the reasons why services were traditionally located where?
Answer: In the CBD.
In LDCs where are the poorest residents located compared to the richest residents?
Answer: In LDCs, the poorest residents live in the periphery, and the richest residents live closer to the CBD or the middle. (In U.S. cities, it's the opposite)