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Model that describes urban environments as a series of rings of district land uses radiating out from a central core or CBD.
What is concentric zone model
100
The first cities arose in
What hearths of early agriculture
100
During the 19 and 20 centuries this was the most prominent type of intraregional migration worldwide
What is rural to urban
100
Boston to Washington DC
What is megalopolis
100
The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually high and transportation systems converge.
What is CBD
200
Type of urban form in which cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place.
What is multiple nuclei model
200
An early 20th century mass movement of African Americans from the Deep South to the industrial North, particularly Chicago.
What is the Great Migration
200
According to the rank size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 10 million, the next largest city will have a population of
What is five million
200
Useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland.
What is Christaller's model of central place?
200
Urban city that is disproportionately larger than the second largest city in a country; dominates social, political and economic activities
What is primate city
300
According to the sector model of North American city structure, members of low-income groups tend to live in what place...
What is linear residential areas radiating from the center city outward
300
The physical form of a city or urban region
What is urban morphology
300
After WWII *Mass production of the automobile *Expansion of home construction *Expansion of interstate highway system *Availability of a low down payment terms and long term mortgages all led to...
What is rapid suburbanization
300
In cities like Baltimore, what has transformed ghettos in to upscale urban neighborhoods?
What is gentrification?
300
Squatter settlements near the center of the city, situated in areas such as river banks, steep hillsides, or abandoned industrial lands, are know as
What are disamenity zones
400
A model of urban land use that places the central business district in the middle with wedge-shaped sectors radiating outwards from the center along transportation corridors
What is sector model
400
Singapore is an example of a city that is a(n)
What is - entrepot
400
Other words for "squatter settlements in the urban periphery"
What is favelas, ghettos, slums...
400
International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and polarized social structure define
What are world cities
400
Cities that because of their geographic location act as port of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas
What is Gateway city
500
(Classic______ cities have narrow, winding streets, open-air markets, many dead-ends, and courtyards surrounded by high walls) Real question: Contain many structural relics from colonialism
(What is Islamic cities****) What are African, South American and Asian cities
500
The portion of an economy that is engaged in the production of natural resources such as fisheries, mining, timber is
What is primary sector
500
Constructing integrated public transit systems including bus, subway, and rail would increase the _________ of large urban areas with sprawling suburbs.
What is sustainability
500
Cities that arose during the Middle Ages and that actually represent a time of stagnant growth. This system fostered a dependent relationship between wealthy land owners and peasants who worked their land.
What is feudal city
500
All of the following helped create..... *blockbusting and racial steering *redlining by financial institutions *concentration of public housing and social services *fixed school district boundaries (hint: early history in Europe, ethnically based)
What are ghettos