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Which city model relies heavily on cars?
Which model modified the concentric zone model to take into account transportation routes - sector - wedges out from the center
How does the pattern of buildings change as you reach the center of a city
Why does this change -
What is at the center of the concentric zone model and many other city models
According to the sector model where would the lower class neighborhoods exist (next to what)
What is the basic idea behind the sector model
What is the basic idea behind the multiple nuclei model (why are there multiple nuclei) airport
How have cities chagned in America post WWII
In what year will the majority of people be living in cities?
In what type of country do you find most of the world's urban population?
What is the biggest difference in the type of buildings that create sprawl versus the type of buildings you find downtown?
What is the main idea behind the design of urban sprawl
In the Latin American model, where do the rich live
What is at the edges - difference between there and zone of accretion building material
What are the two trends movement of people in America (think city, suburb, town)
What is the most recent trend for many American cities (late 90s) -gentrification - starbucks
What is China's main source of energy for electricity
How did Chicago gain the area of Rogers Park
In Europe they enforce green zones around suburbs known as
What is the largest city in the America's
What is the largest city in the world
The American CBD is high or low intense land use and
What is redlining - A practice by lending institutions restricting the number of loans that will be underwritten in a given community. The practice is illegal if based on the
racial composition of a community.
What is blockbusting: The illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell their properties by making representations regarding the entry of a particular race into the
neighborhood.
What was the enclosure movement - in England when the common land were - move to urban area to work
How has the US government encouraged the use of cars
The French long-lot system was developed primarily because of -
A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through
According to the concentric zone model a city develops in a series of
corridors rings nodes areas sectors
In a linear community the best location for a service is the
The minimum number of people needed to support a service is
hinterland range threshold median central place
Why is the absence of a rank-size distribution significant in a country like Romania
All of the following are true about central place theory except
rank and how ranks differ
According to the sector model, the best housing is located in
Corridor from the downtown to the edge of the city
The CBD
Nodes near the universities and parks
Renovated inner city neighborhoods
An outer ring surrounding the city
The CBD attracts offices primarily because of its
High accessibility
High land costs
More intensive land use
Less intensive land use
Construction of skyscrapers
In the U.S. which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area
CBD
Central City
Urbanized Area
Metro Statistical Area
Suburban area
A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is
Government
Industrial
Office
Retail
Personal Services
Megalopolis refers to
Adjacent overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas
Central Cities
CBD plus outer suburbs
Central cities plus urbanized areas
Consolidated Metro Stat Areas
Rural settlements differs from urban settlements primarily according to which type of activity
Cultural economic political religious social
Most people in the world live in what type of settlement
Clustered urban
Dispersed rural
Clustered rural
Metro area
Urban settlement
The study of constraints placed by resources on the level of development is
Carrying capacity analysis
Desertification
Environmental impact statement
Proven reserves
Possiblism
A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements
Blockbusting
Filtering
Gentrification
Redlining
Urban renewal
Producer services provide what kind of services -what sector
Diffusion and distribution of services
Services to businesses
Services for the wellbeing of individuals
Security and protection
Both a and b
The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the
Hinterland range threshold median central place theory
37Critics and defenders of sustainable development both agree that
Definitions of resources change drastically and unpredictably over time
Earth has only 11.4 billion hectares of biologically productive land
Less international cooperation is needed to reduce the gap between ldc’s and mdc’s
More international cooperation is needed to reduce the gap between ldc’s and mdc’s
MDC’s must dictate sound environmental policies to LDC’s
38U.S. central cities face fiscal problems because
Federal and state funds are available
Low-income people are concentrated here
Middle-class families are attracted here
Redlining is no longer legal
Gentrification is occurring
39A recent change in the density gradient has been
The elimination of the gap traditionally found in the center
An increase in the extremes between the inner and outer areas
An increase in the number of people living in the center
A reduction in the differences in densities found within an urban area
An increase in the differences in densities found within an urban area
According to the gravity model, the potential use of a service at a location is related
Directly to the threshold and inversely to the market
Directly to distance and inversely to population
Directly to population and inversely to distance
Inversely to both distance and population
Directly to both population and distance
If a country follows the rank-size rule, if the largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants, how many people live in the fifth largest city
Sprawl definition
If a country’s largest city (like Slovenia) has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest had 200,000 inhabitants the country follows which distribution
Central place economic base primate city rank-size density gradient
In recent years, urban residents are more likely to shop in
Corner shops
Downtown stores
Suburban malls
All of the above
None
A market area is a good example of what kind of region
Cultural formal functional uniform vernacular
What are the three core areas?