Vocab
Models/Theories
Cities/general urbanization
100

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Laws that created segregation within America.

100

What model is characterized as hexagon-sized places around a business?

Central place theory

100

Megacity definition

Pop. exceeds 10m
200
CBD definition

Central Business District, main economic area in a city

200
Urban area is developed in "rings"

Coencentric Zone Model

200

What is a metacity?

Pop. exceeds 20m

300

What is an exurb?

A remote suburb that is not dependent on a major city

300

Built in sectors

Sector model

300

What are world cities and give an example of one

A world city is a city playing a major part in the world economy (examples may vary, but consider one to be like NYC)

400

What is white flight?

white people moving out of neighborhoods due to blockbusting

400

Has "2" CBD's, one colonial, one traditional

Sub-saharan African model

400

What term describes when cities grow into surrounding rural areas?

Urban sprawl

500

Name all 5 of Borcherts Epochs. 

 1) Sail-Wagon Epoch (pre-1800), 2) Iron Horse Epoch (1800-1870), 3) Steel Rail Epoch (1870-1920), 4) Auto-Air-Amenity Epoch (1920-1970), and 5) Satellite-Electronic-Jet Propulsion Epoch (1970-present).

500

Different towns and urban areas are connected around the city with a beltway

Galactic model

500

People decide to move farther from the CBD of an city to a more spread-out, residential area, still in the metro area of the city

Suburbanization