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100
Creator of the sector model, which focused on residential patterns.
Who is Homer Hoyt.
100
Concentric Zone Model
What is a structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center.
100
The process by which lands that were previousy outside of the urban environment become urbanized.
What is suburbanization?
100
This urban hearth is located between the Tigris and Eupjrates rivers.
Where is Mesopotamia?
100
Indus River Valley is distinguished from other hearths by its urbanization and irrigation.
What is false?
200
The creator of the concentric zone model, modeling it off of Chicago.
Who is Ernest Burgess?
200
Sector Model
What is a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD).
200
The division of a city into certain regions for certain purposes.
What is functional zonation?
200
These markets were the center of social and economic activity in ancient Greece.
What is the agora?
200
Agricultural villages began over 10,000 years ago.
What is true?
300
Creator of the central place theory, which determines where major cities would be spatially and functionally distributed.
Who is Walter Christaller?
300
Multiple Nuclei Model
What is type of urban form wherein cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place.
300
A practice carried out by realtors before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. They would identify what they considered risky neighborhoods in the cities and refuse to offer loans to those in the districts. This, now illegal, worked against the poorer neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
300
The three top world cities.
What is New York, London, and Tokyo.
300
Greek civilization invented the forum.
What is false?
400
A geographer that argues that new urbanism is a kind of "spatial determinism."
Who is David Harvey?
400
What is Griffin and Ford found that South American cities blend traditional elements of South American culture with the forces of globalization that ate reshaping the urban scene, combining radial sectors and concentric zones.
What is Griffin-Ford Model
400
Development of walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.
What is new urbanism?
400
This is the shape of the central place theory.
What is a hexagon?
400
The Second Urban Revolution began at the end of the 19th century.
What is false?
500
Creator of the Southeast Asian City Model.
Who is T.G. McGee?
500
Combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors.
What is the new and improved model of Latin American city structure
500
They layout of a city, its physical form and structure.
What is urban morphology?
500
The six urban hearths.
What is the Mesopotamia, Nile River Valley, Huang he and wei valleys, Indus River Valley, Mesoamerica, and Peru?
500
The sunbelt phenomenon moved Americans from Northern and Northeastern states to the South and Southwest.
What is true?