Dq's 1
2.Discuss the meaning of urban.
space of the central city and it’s suburbs.
Urban areas usually are cities where people work in office buildings or laboratories rather than going out to the field to farm.
2.Examine the factors that were considered in the siting of a Roman city.
places with absolute location and chosen for the advantages of trade and defense, or a center of a religious practice like a temple.
Ex. Why the greek cities were located where they were; trade routes, interior parts of Europe, good pathways of land trade routes. Higher elevations(defense), religion
1.Discuss the components of a trade area.
adjacent urban region whose influence is dominant.
Customers from other places like smaller towns and villages come to the major cities to shop and conduct other business.
4.Account for the continuing dominant role of the CBD in South American cities of the Griffin-Ford model (1996).
due to South American cities still having classes or socioeconomic levels and how the housing quality decreases as it moves away from the city center.
1.Discuss the purpose of zoning laws and list various types of “zones” that may be designated in a city.
divide a city and designate a particular kind of development allowed in each zone
zones are office zones, residential zones, transportation zones, education zones, commercial zones, industrial zones
3.Outline the various functions of cities
agglomerations of people, services, and goods.
Cities lack political power and industrial might, but have higher education, technology, artistic achievements, medical advances, a government, and the citizens pay taxes to support public events.
Ex. Cities have things that smaller cities may not have; ex. LA has baseball stadiums
4.Analyze the effects of European maritime exploration on the situation of world cities.
hered the era of oceanic trade.
Cities like Basle and Xian changed from being crucial nodes of trading routes to being peripheral to ocean-oriented trade.
5.What is meant by functional zonation in reference to a city’s cultural landscape?
- models of cities help us understand the process that forged cities in the of place and help link the impact of modern linkages that are changing the city.
- Ex. of zones: Housing or residential(Central places in a city where there are houses) ; education zone(designated for where Schools will exist)
6.Describe the three CBDs that might occur in the African City
remnant of colonial CBD(Vertical development occurs here)
an informal and sometimes periodic market zone,
a traditional business center where commerce is conducted from curbsides, stalls, and storefronts.
3.Discuss the effects of not having zoning laws in peripheral cities.
mixed land use throughout the city like how a school can be right next to a factory that causes a lot of pollution, this isn’t very healthy for the children.
4.Account for the different rates of urbanization between Western Europe, the US, Canada and Japan vs. India and China.
Western Europe, Us, Canada, and Japan’s population 4 out of 5 (Core countries) people are living in cities or towns,
in India and China’s populations(developing or growing) is 5 out of 10.
Mesopotamians diffused into Greece and shared their ways of life. Seafarers connected the islands in Greece with trade routes and carried urban notions of life.
Had good trade routes, and cities. Decent size populations, began the ideas of cities and cities competing and trading together
6.Discuss the characteristics of a Central Business District (CBD).
places with typically high land values, tall buildings, bust traffic, converbing highways, and mass transit system.
Key economic hub of an area, may be center of government activity, more expensive to own land near CBD
5.Explain the disamenity sector of many South American cities and discuss why similar conditions would occur beyond the “periferico”.
parts of the poorest parts of the city and some extreme conditions are not connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs and drug lords.
The disamenity sector and periferico are similar since both are far from the central city and are not very urbanized and quite poor.
4.Explain the effects of “redlining” on poor neighborhoods.
helped to precipitate a downward spiral
the poor neighborhoods became increasingly rundown due to funds not being available for upkeep or purchase homes for sale.
Created pockets of poverty and ghettos de facto segregation
8.Discuss the two theories that have attempted to explain the rise of the first cities.
a series of events like technology advances for farming like irrigation led to the formation of an agricultural surplus and a leadership class.
Another theory is a king or priest king centralized political power and demanded more labor to generate the surplus to get more political power.
7.Analyze the improvements that occurred in urban conditions in the late nineteenth century.
Europe said to unite and the conditions in European manufacturing cities gradually improved, and they were forced to recognize workers rights, and the government intervened by legislating worker’s rights and introducing the city planning and zoning, another thing that improved the manufacturing city.
7.Analyze the characteristics of a suburb.
outlining function unforming a part of an urban area, and can be adjacent to the central city.
Suburb areas usually are schools, shopping malls, and office parks, but can be residential.
Close enough to a city, but not in the central city, suburbs is a safe quieter environment
3.Explain the concept of a galactic city.
complex urban atra which centrality is no longer significant, instead in these cities the old downtown plays the role of a festival or recreational area.
8.Analyze and assess the process of “gentrification”.
rehabilitation of deteriorated houses in low income neighborhoods, when people move to poor neighborhoods that are close to the CBD and are willing to live there and they rehabilitate the rundown houses.
9.List the six urban hearths and provide their researched date of origin.
Mesopotamia which originated from about 3500 BCE and located between the Tigris and Euphrates river,
the Nile river valley which dates back to 3200 BCE,
the Indus river valley which dates back to 2200 BCE is likely helped diffuser from the fertile crescents,
Huang He and Wei Valleys which dated back to 1500 BCE in China where an emperor created the great wall of China,
Mesoamerica dating to the 1100 BCE near Mexico,
Peru in 900 BCE.
5.Explain the effects of the Industrial Revolution on cities during the Second Urban Revolution in the late eighteenth century.
western Europe was still mainly rural as thousands of migrants moved to the cities with industrialization, the cities had to adapt to the huge and growing population, adding factories, supply facilities, transportation systems, and the constructions of tenements for the growing labor force.
10.Discuss why functional zonation does not occur in many of the older cities of Europe.
older cities developed gradually , with no overall planning and no particular order to the street pattern.
older, created when there wasn't a concept of zoning or urban planning.
1.Discuss the role of Irvine as an edge city.
attracted thousands of nearby suburanities by offering workplaces, shopping, leisure activities, and other things that make a city urban,
6.Examine the effects of suburbanization on core cities.
government loses tax revenue due to middle and upper classes moving to suburbs in search of a larger home and a safer area to live.
To counteract this the government has encouraged commercialization of the CBD.