Vocabulary
A conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve a center of polities, culture, and economy is?
A city.
What are the 3 types of models
1. concentric
2. sector
3. multiple-nuclei
What was the geographer associted with this theory?
Walter Christaller
What were Greece's two leading cities?
Athens and Sparta
Movement of people from rural to urban areas
Urbanization
What did this theory predict?
how and where the central places in the urban hierarchy would be distributed
What is an acropolis and give an example
where people build religious structures ex: Parthenon of Athens
Where was Mesopotamia located?
between the Tigris and Euphrates River
The downtown hearth of a central city marked by highland values, a concerntration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings is?
Central Business District (CBD)
Name 2 assumptions that Christaller made
surface of region is flat, soil fertility is the same everywhere, population and purchasing power will be distributed evenly, uniform transportation network, and goods and services could be sold in all directions
Which city came first? (Greek or Roman)
Greek
what are 2 components that enable the formation of cities?
agucultural surplus and social stratification
Who developed the sector model?
Homer Hoyt
How are cities organized?
Urban morphology and Funtional zonation
In which of the first cities can we see ddiffusion of organizations
Greek and Roman cities
What are some other examples of hearts of agriculture?
Indus River Valley, Mesoamerica, Nile River Valley, Huang He and Wei River Valleys.
The inovation of the city is called the?
First agricultural revolution
Which model shows the CBD losing dominance?
Multiple Nuclei Model
What was the Sunbelt Phenomenon?
movement of millions of Americans from northern and northeastern states to the south and southwest regions of the United States
What was the Forum made up of?
Greek acropolis and agora
What encouraged the growth of cities?
industrialization