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According to the Concentric Zone Model, a city develops in a series of: 4
What are rings? 5
The shape that Christaller used in his model to avoid overlapped or unserved areas: 6
What is a hexagon? (hexagonal) 7
Urban model was developed to explain the patterns of American cities in the 1920 s: 8
What is the CZM? 9
The model/theory useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population of its hinterland: 10
What is the CPT (Central Place Theory)? 11
“A corridor from downtown to the edge of the city” – according to this model, this is where the best housing is located: 12
What is the sector model? 13
On what continent is the greatest number of city dwellers found: 14
What is Asia? 15
Ramshackle houses on the periphery of cities in LDCs are known as: 16
What are squatter settlements? 17
Most ____ cities are focused on/around a central square or plaza: 18
What are Latin American? 19
In core area cities, the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing, which resulted in the raising of housing values & a social change in neighborhoods, is called: 20
What is gentrification? 21
The layout of a city, the physical form & structure, is referred to as: 22
What is urban morphology? 23
The development of new residential & commercial sites beyond the existing built-up area is referred to as: 24
What is sprawl? 25
The multiple nuclei model of urban structure arose from the idea that the _____ was losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city: 26
What is the CBD? 27
A(n) ____ has a large amount of recently developed retail & office space; a newer development in MDCs on the “outskirts” of a city: 28
What is an Edge City? 29
If you commuted to work by your own automobile every day into the city, you would most likely be in this zone of Burgess’s model: 30
What is zone/ring 5? 31
Inner city decay landscape homogenization (placelessness) loss of productive farmland All of the above can happen as a result of this process: 32
What is suburbanization? 33
The study of the way cities function as well as their internal systems & structures & their external influences is the field of: 34
What is urban geography? 35
The minimum level of purchasing power necessary for the establishment of a given activity: 36
What is threshold? 37
Adjacent, overlapping MSAs, like Bosnywash, are known as: 38
What is a megalopolis? 39
In the U. S. , the term __ covers the largest land area, which includes the city, its county and the surrounding counties : 40
What is the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)? 41
A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements: 42
What is redlining? 43
The “sun belt” of the U. S. made up of these regions: 44
What is the South & the West? 45
The world’s first urban areas originated in this region: 46
What is Southwest Asia? 47
____ is credited with developing the sector model: 48
Who is Hoyt? 49
The ___ is characterized in part by high rates of drug addiction: 50
What is the underclass? 51
_____ regulations serve all of the following legitimate purposes: provide for the creation in appropriate locations of government buildings, exclude undesirable land uses, such as waste disposal sites, from residential neighborhoods, and provide land for certain private uses, such as shopping centers: 52
What is zoning? 53
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Name THREE of the original urban hearth areas: 55
Mesopotamia Mexico Northern China The Indus Valley Egypt 56
Using the rank-size rule, if Wood County’s largest city has 200, 000 residents, how many people live in Wood County’s fourth largest city? 57
What is 50, 000? 58
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