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APHUGE: Urban Geography. NG 15-17
Which is not an example of New Urbanism?
Which model is this?
APHUGE: Urban Geography. NG 15-17
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Which model is this?
Multiple Nuclei
McGee Model
Griffin Ford
Galactic City
2
Which is not an example of New Urbanism?
Greystone, Alabama
Seaside, Florida
Mt. Laurel, Alabama
Celebration, Florida
3
Which is in the correct hierarchical order?
CIty, village, town, hamlet
City, town, village, hamlet
City, village, hamlet, town
City, hamlet, town, village
4
Which describes the Concentric Zone Model?
Edge cities are along the edges
Based on transportation routes
Suburban rings are on the outside.
Several CBD's
5
What invention contributed most to urban sprawl?
The automobile
The railroad
The internet
Subways and streetcars
6
Which is considered to have the strongest imprint of colonialism on their cities?
Middle America
Southwest Asia
Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia
Sub-Saharan Africa
7
The Concentric Zone Model and the Sector Model were both based on what city?
Chicago
New York
Boston
Los Angeles
8
What is the formula for gravity model?
Distance squared/ population 1-population2
Population 1 x population2 / distance squared
Population1+ population2 + population 3
Population 1 + Population 2 / distance squared
9
Which of the following is a benefit of mixed-use development?
It promotes affordable housing
It decreases residential density
It mitigates crime
It promotes livable urban spaces
10
What is the major industry of Houston, TX?
Oil
Steel
Automobiles
Cereal
11
Most Latin American cities are focused on what?
A suburb
A port
A central plaza
A shantytown
12
Identifying and developing vacant parcels of land within previously built areas is called what?
Infill
Brownfield
Megacity
Exurb
13
Which of the following correctly descibes the location of most disamenity zones?
On the outskirts of slow-growth cities
Circling vertical housing projects
On the periphery of large cities
Inside the central business district
14
Which model has squatter settlements next to suburbs?
McGee Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
African Cities Model
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Why does Central Place Theory predict hexagonal market areas?
It follows transportation routes.
It only applies to rural areas where market areas are small
It deals with consumer behavior
It prevents overlap and unaccounted space
16
What does the Griffin-Ford model apply to?
South America
Sub Saharan Africa
Latin American Cities
North America
17
Which of the following countries does NOT follow binary distribution
France
India
Canada
China
18
Which is not an assumption that Christaller made?
Soil fertility would be the same everywhere
There would be no change in productivity through the seasons
There would be uniform transportaion
The surface would be flat with no physical barriers
19
A strip of land that marks the geological boundary between an upland region and a plain is called what?
Fall Line
Hierarchical Model
Gravity Model
Tectonic plate
20
Which of the following is not a primate city?
Paris
New York
Mexico City
London
21
Which of the following was not one of the five original urban hearth regions?
Nile River Valley
Greece
The Indus Valley
Mesopotamia
22
Which is true of the African Cities Model?
There are three main CBD's
There is a colonial port zone.
There are squatter settlements next to suburbs
It is based on hexagons
23
Who came up with Central Place Theory?
Ernst Burgess
Walter Christaller
Homer Hoyt
David Harvey
24
If the largest city has 10 million, the 2nd largest 9 million and the 3rd largest 2 million, what does the city follow?
Dual distribution
Rank size rule
Binary distribution
The country has a primate city
25
Which model is this?
Griffin Ford
Multiple Nuclei
Concentric Zone
McGee
26
What is it called when residents move back to cities to rejuvenate homes?
Commercialization
White Flight
Redlining
Gentrification
27
The number of people needed to support a good or service
Range
Threshold
Infill
Median
28
A community outside a larger city with lots of office space and retail complexes is called what?
Edge City
Greenbelt
Boomburb
Exurb
29
Who developed the Multiple Nuclei Model?
Ernst Burgess
McGee
Homer Hoyt
Harris and Ullman
30
Which is not a world city?
Tokyo
Los Angeles
New York
London
31
The sector model of city structure assumes that typical spatial behavior involves people
moving around the outer belt
moving in and out of downtown
moving everywhere all the time
only moving within the downtown
32
When was the Sector Model developed?
1910's
1920's
1940's
1930's
33
When a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis aof a neighborhood's racial makeup
Eminent domain
Blockbusting
Smart-growth policies
Redlining
34
What's the largest city in the world?
New York City
Tokyo
Shanghai
Mumbai
35
A city with more than 20 million is called a
Megacity
Metacity
Edge City
Boomburb
36
What happens to the CBD in the Multiple Nuclei Model?
It gains prominence
It loses its dominance
It goes away completely
It is surrounded by shantytowns
37
If you participate in gentrification, you would move where?
To the city
To the suburbs
To the shantytowns
To the country
38
Which of these cities was NOT part of the rust belt?
Cleveland
Atlanta
Allentown
Detroit
39
A city that is disproportionally large in relation to the next largest city in that country is
a gamma city
a world city
an alpha city
a primate city
40
Who came up with the Southeast Asian model?
McGee
Burgess
Ullman
Hoyt
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A government's right to take over privately owned property for public use or interest.
Environmental injustice
Eminent domain
Land tenure
Inclusionary zoning law
42
According to rank size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 12 million
the 2nd largest would be 3 million
the 2nd largest would have 8 million
the 2nd largest would have 6 million
the 2nd largest would have 4 million
