Plan 101 - Midterm

The city is a living organism, when one part gets sick the whole body is at risk.

What are 3 ways in which the location & internal organization of a city affect its inhabitants?

Cities can develop tight knit microcommunities the likes of which have never been seen outside the rural environment!

What is not a characteristic of a common interest development?

What transportation project made New York a destination for European Immigrants?

Hayden argued that increased segregation division through suburbanization played a central role in creating what?

Cary, a high growth suburb, can be classified as a _________.

Specialization commonly leads to ______________ as some jobs are seen as more valuable than others.

What is one example of a cost associated with increased automobility?

The Human mind must erect barriers of self defense against the horrors and tragedies of the city.

The Neolithic Revolution brought man from _______ to __________

Which city was founded or grew based on its "access" in some form?

The process of using fear of black families moving in to get white families to sell their homes cheaply

According to _________, specialization, size, an elite, writing/law, art, and trade were some features of an early city

What two federal programs worked with transit development to facilitate the boom in suburbanization of the 1950s?

This history of cities is the history of class struggle!

A society must develop an agricultural sophistication high enough to gain ________ if they want to achieve Civilization

Its all about Gessellshaft and Gemeinshaft!

Societies gradually moved from rural to urban through what process?

_______is characterized as the ever expanding fringe of urban areas

Alfred Weber said cities will grow where the transportation costs of raw materials are the lowest, aka?

The Durham-Chapel Hill MSA is an example of what definition of a city?

What is the key defining feature of urban societies?

An intermingling or continuous series of metropolitan areas sharing many characteristics is called what?

Which theorist & theory focused on invasion, succession, "natural areas," and ecological concepts?

Urban sociology is the study of ________, whereas urban geography is the study of ________.

Which of these did NOT lead to suburbanization

Savannah is really the only city to maintain a clear version of what?

Stormwater runoff, pollution, deforestation, and the heat island effect are results of _________?

One of the only examples of significant civic works in the Ancient World