Refusing to give someone a housing loan in known as this colorful term:
Redlining
100
Which epoch had the slowest transportation?
Sail-and-Wagon
100
This model states that cities develop from multiple nodes and not just from the CBD.
Multi-Nuclei
200
The three most important world cities are:
London, Tokyo, New York City
200
In Burgess's model, as you move away from the CBD _____________ increases.
Wealth
200
What is exurbanization?
Moving away from the suburbs because they have now become overcrowded like the urban areas.
200
A town which no longer has its resource base is called a:
Ghost town
200
Which region has the lowest urban skylines?
Europe
300
Name three forward-thrust capitals.
Ottawa, Canberra, Brasilia, Napyidaw, Astana, Abuja, Islamabad, and more.
300
Which class lives within the industrial region of the Sector Model?
Lower class
300
How does ghettoization relate to gentrification? What are the criticisms?
AWV
300
Provide four characteristics of new urbanism.
-Walkability
-Streets connected by a grid
-Mixed-Use
-Diversity (i.e. race and culture)
-Mixed-Housing (i.e. styles and prices)
-Aesthetically pleasing
-Close proximity of buildings
-Green transportation
-Neighborhood structure
-Sustainability
300
What's the difference between a brownfield and a greenbelt?
Brownfields are former industrial areas; greenbelts add greenery to the drab urban environment.
400
The Japanese conurbation of network cities includes which three cities?
Osaka-Nagasaki-Tokyo
400
Edge cities specialize in ___________________
Galactic Cities are built around _______________
Retail; Freeways
400
This 1981 act was meant to combat urban/suburban sprawl and to save agricultural land.
Farmland Protection Policy Act
400
The urban zone riddled with poverty is called the:
Disamenity Zone
400
Describe three characteristics of Christaller's Central Place Theory Model.
-Hexagonal
-A few large urban units, with lots of smaller ones
-Large cities have higher threshold goods whereas smaller ones do not
-Smaller towns cluster around larger ones
-The centralized, larger core cities influence the smaller peripheral towns immensely.
-Etc.
500
Papua New Guinea's primate city is:
Port Moresby
500
Between the zone of maturity and the zone of squatter settlements; common in Latin American cities.
In situ accretion
500
What are three criticisms of White Flight?
-Increase in crime
-Loss of food stores
-Ghettoization
-Loss of businesses
-Loss of good police officers
500
Selling goods in bulk for others to retail.
Wholesaling
500
Cities which are close to the resource base/raw materials; these cities are clustered.