Duplicate of AP HuG: Unit VII: Cities & Urban Land Use

Ina simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities areclustered is the

Theminimum number of people needed to support a service is called the

Alegal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

A central place is a 

When banks designate an area within which they reuse to lend money for improvements

Aland use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

Factorieshave moved to suburban locations in part because of

Peoplein the United States are attracted to suburbs in part because suburbs arecharacterized by

Public transit is more extensive in Western European cities than in the U.S. primarily because

Thecity plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the

Accordingto the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby

Subdividing a house from single-family owner occupancy to multiple occupancy, is

Largest city = million people;  2nd largest has 200,000.  What explains its distribution?

Theprocess of legally adding land area to a city in the United States is

Megalopolis refers to

Comparedto the United Kingdom, the amount of sprawl in the United States is

LDCsspecialize in what two types of global business services?

Thezone in transition in U.S. cities typically contains which of the following?

CentralPlace Theory predicts larger settlements are

The hierarchical listing of settlements by size is known as the

When neighborhoods are converted from low-income to middle/upper class is

What activity is located on the street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typicalN. American CBD?

Manyof the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live inareas known as

EuropeanCBDs are similar to those in North America because they both contain

Worldcities are defined by

Comparedto the United States, poor families in European cities are more likely to be

 The attraction of the outsourced "call centers" to locate inIndia can best be explained by

TheU.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by

Accordingto the sector model, the best housing is located in

An owner abandoning a property b/c the rents collected are less than the cost of upkeep

Landvalues are high in the CBD primarily because of

The city of ________ declined from 1.8 million inhabitants in 1950 to 700,000 in 2010.

The  location of a service is related directly to population andinversely to distance in the

Retailactivities which tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have

Chicagois a good location in which to develop urban models because it is located

Most people in the world live in what type of settlement?

Accordingto the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted is the

TheU.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by

Themultiple nuclei theory