Urban Geography, Part I

Christaller's Central Place Theory can be used most appopriately to determine the

Another term for shantytown or favela where poor people set up housing from available scraps on land they don't own.

Discriminatory process where banks draw lines on a map to refuse lending to specific minority groups.

Brazilian term for Shantytowns

Which of the following is not associated with urban gentrification?

Collections of makeshift shelters built out of scrap metal & lumber found on the edges of cities in LDCs

Mass movement of middle-class from urban core areas to nearby outskirts to escape issues like crime, pollution, etc.

Economic growth of cities like Dallas & Atlanta, spurred by major corps locating HQs in those cities supports the..

Expanses of paved surfaces absorb heat during the day & give off heat at night.

Working & middle class white people move away from racial-minority inner-city to white suburbs.

Explains the distribution of cities and services from lower to higher order.

A model that challenges the Concentric zone model by arranging a series of wedges from the CBD.

Residential neighborhoods that surround the CBD. In the U.S, usually densley populated w/poorer people.

The downtown area, where business, retail & office activities are clustered.

A metropolitan area w/ more than 10 million people and/or large cities in LDCs w/lots of poverty & problems

A pattern of cities & settlements in a country, where the "nth" largest city is 1/n the population of the largest city

In economic geography, the minimum number of consumers needed to support the supply of a product or service.