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Urban Origination
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100
______ are built off the urban metropolis they surround.
What are suburban settlements?
100
What city were the Hoyt Sector Model and Burgess Concentric Zone Model based on?
What is Chicago?
100
The ___________ is the key economic zone of the city as it houses a large concentration of business and commerce in the city's downtown?
What is the Central Business District? (CBD)
100
In some regions, housing cannot keep up with the massive inflow of population, therefore, almost overnight unplanned developments of crude dwellings and shelter are created surrounding the city; these is know as?
What are shawty towns, or squatter settlements?
100
In regions, specifically North America, city governments have drawn up laws to ensure the space of the city was used in ways that deemed culturally and environmentally acceptable, what are these laws called? and, provide an example?
What are zoning laws? examples, fast food franchise cannot occupy a corner lot in residental American suburb if zoned that all the lots be used for homes, or how high a building can be built/limit the number of floors in the city, or a certain number of parking spaces must be avaliable in a commerical parking lot, or distances between buildings or homes, among many others...ect!
200
An ______ is defined by a settlement where all people living in it were involved in agriculture, which was produced in near subsistence levels. These were permanent, egalitarian structures that preceded urbanization.
What is an agricultural village?
200
These three models all have the element of outer squatter settlements or satellite zones in common.
What are the Southeast Asian City Model, the African City Model, and the Latin American City Model?
200
Each city, regardless the region, requires a study of ______ ________; where it divides the city into certain regions for certain purposes. - for example, cities typically have residential zones seperate from industrial zones, which are serperate from garbage dumps due to this study.
What is functional zonation?
200
In order to attract specific crowds, locations have become genered; name two genered locations.
What are home improvement stores (male), spas/salons (females), sports bars (male), children/baby stores (females), sports stores (male), ect...?
200
Descibe the role of blockbusting before the civil rights movement in white neighborhoods.
What is when the relators would solicit other white residents of the neighborhood to sell their homes under the guise the neighborhood was going downhill because an African-American just moved in-produced the white flight (movement of whites from the city and adjacent neighborhoods to outlying suburbs).
300
Which two factors lead to urbanization?
What are agricultural surplus and social stratification?
300
This model is the result of Imperialism and does not center on the CBD; what does it center on?
What is the Southeast Asian City Model; centers on the colonial port?
300
After being introduced in the Multiple Nuclei Model, which types of cities are located outside the CBD, due to personal automobiles, construction of highway systems, and suburbanization?
What are edge cities?
300
The suburbs focus on fitting the standard of individual's styles, and a main part of that is due to tear downs. Explain how tear downs lead to McMansions in the suburbs.
What is when owners buy houses soley with the thought of tearing down and building a much larger home, a McMansion, that often covers a majority of the lot; trend is growing increasingly popular?
300
_______ is the process in which financial institutions in the business of lending money would identify what they felt were risky neighborhoods (a majority of them where black) and refuse to offer loans to those districts.
What is Redlining?
400
Name the five hearths of urbanization?
What are Mesoamerica, the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Huang He River Valley?
400
Name the three city models based on 20th century American cities and their geographers.
What are the Concentric Zone Model (Ernst Burgess), the Sector Model (Hoyt), and the Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris & Ullman)?
400
Describe the process of suburbanization and its help with creating the suburbs outside the edge of the city.
What is the process by which lands that were previously outside the urban environment becoming urbanized, as people and businesses from the city move to these places. With the large transformation of land from rural to urban uses people are able to build the land they want to; large lots, family homes, garages, space between neighbors, ect.?
400
______ neighborhoods are popular in countries as they affiliate migrants/groups of people different from the majority of the population. examples, Algeria was a colony of France; presently there is a large distinct neighbor in Paris devoted to primarily Algerians.
What is ethnic?
400
Decribe the process of gentrification.
What is when individuals buy up and rehabilitate the houses, rasing the housing value in the neighborhood and changing the neighborhood after beginning in the 1960's.
500
From which urban hearth did the urbanization of Western Europe diffuse?
What is Mesopotamia?
500
The _____ Model describes spatial components of the modern metropolis, where each realm is a separate social, political, and economic entity that is linked together to form the metropolitan framework.
What is the urban realms model?
500
The largest component to any city is the populations, however, the city's population to the cities around it can be done through two ways: rank-size rule or primate city. Describe the differences between the two and how a city can qualify to fall under one of the categories.
What are countries which follow the rank-size rule, their largest city's population can be divided in half to get the second largest city's population and then the third largest city can be divided by one-third to get its population. On the other hand, a primate city is a city in thr country with the only high population and all the remaining cities are clustered far below in terms of population.
500
Explain the importance of gated communities and why they are growing increasing popular in city suburbs.
What is a fenced in community with controlled access gates for people and automobiles of residents, they often are comprised of security cameras and forces that watch over the area. Not only do gated communities create a space of safety within the uncertain urban world, they also maintain/increase housing values in the neighborhoods. Therefore, growing in popularity after all possitive effects.
500
__________ helps counterbalance suburbanization, which entails transforming the central city to an area attractive to residents and tourists alike after suburbanization leads middle class taxpayers to pay to suburbs instead of central cities.
What is commercialization?