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AP HUG Unit 6: Urban Patterns
AP HUG Unit 6: Urban Patterns
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The Gravity Model predicts
agricultural land use patterns
population density
spatial interaction between places
urban land use patterns
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The Greenbelt program is designed to protect
industrial areas
mining areas
residential areas
agricultural areas
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What city model is this?
Model of Southeast Asian city
Model of subsaharan African city
Model of Latin American city
4
The rank size rule tells us the 4th largest city has ? population of the largest city?
1/25
1/2
1/3
1/4
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The galactic city model, edge city model and peripheral model are focused on the:
"Spine" extending from the CBD surrounded by the wealthy
Central Business District or market place
Development of rail and its impact on city growth
Outer Ring Road (Beltway)
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What is a primate city?
City with a high population, at least 10 million people
Dominant city in terms of world politics and economy
An urban area surrounding and connected to the central city
2x size and influence of the next largest city
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What does the Gravity Model predict about the location of a service?
A service can locate anywhere and always flourish
A service should locate by people of any amount
Best location has fitting threshold and range
It depends on the city's model
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What is a problem with a rapidly-growing urban area?
Not enough tax revenue
Not being able to keep up with public services
Increased crime
Growing brown-sites
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What’s White Flight?
Emigration of Whites 2 the suburbs to avoid POC
Emigration of whites of just moving away from POC
White people can fly
Whites moving into a urban part of town
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The Greenbelt is an area that
is outside a country to protect from decentralisation
is inside a city to protect from pollution
surrounds cities to protect rural areas from urban growth
surrounds cities to encourage population growth
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Process by which inner cities become impoverished & run down; white flight occurs:
blockbusting
gentrification
ghettoization
reapportionment
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Which city model has ethnic neighborhoods & colonial infrastructure?
African City Model
Latin American City Model
Galactic City Model
Burgess Concentric Zone Model
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When did suburban sprawl begin?
post-WW2
in the Era of Good Feelings
during the Cold War
pre-WW1
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What does the central place theory explain?
The layout of a Latin American city
The distribution of different city sizes
Urban growth based on transportation
How cities will continually grow closer together
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Definition of gentrification
middle-class people moving into the inner city to renovate
Making buildings look nice for the people living in it
Just a remodel of the neighborhood
People moving into a abandoned neighborhood and remodeling
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Which of the following countries follows the Rank Size Rule?
France
Germany
India
Mexico
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The second urban revolution is associated with the Industrial Revolution
False
True
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What is blockbusting?
Curbing racial discrimination to minorities.
Renewing infrastructure to lure in middle-class people.
Banks not sending loans to parts of a neighborhood.
Scaring whites into selling their houses to incoming blacks.
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Suburban and urban sprawl encourage the use of
single family homes with cars
mixed income low rise apartments
mass public transportation
mixed used buildings (living and business)
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Suburban living
Center of city
Single dwelling, outskirts of the city
Double apartment living
Farming area
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What shape does the Central Place Theory use to show market areas?
Squares
Circles
Hexagons
Triangles
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What isn’t in the galactic city model?
Suburb
Edge Cities
CBD
Exurb
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The 4 Urban Hearth Regions are:
Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Mississippi Valley and England
Egypt, China, Mesopotania and South Asia
China, Germany, Mexico & Peru
Egypt, China, Mexico and Brazil
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Brownfields are
agricultural areas
former industrial lands
parks and sport fields
empty land
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what is Suburban Sprawl?
Movement out of an area
the spreading of developments into suburban or rural areas
movement into an area
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City Model shown...
Galactic North American City Model
Southeast Asian City Model
European City Model
Latin American City Model
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Who came up with the central place theory?
Borchert
Weber
Wallerstein
Christaller
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What city model is this?
Model of Latin American city
Model of southeast Asian city
Model of African city
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New Urbanism is intended to...
reduce the need for mass transit
decrease density of the city
use less cars in cities
increase senior housing
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a football stadium is an example of a .......... service
low order
high order
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One goal of New Urbanism is:
create transportation routes that allow for rapid movement from suburbs
to design neighborhoods with all necessities within walking distance
To reduce unemployment throughout the city
to achieve urban growth as quickly as possible
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One goal of New Urbanism
to design neighborhoods with all necessities within walking distance
Focus on only the methods of transit
Is to achieve urban growth with no regard to how the city is planned out.
To be concerned with unemployment
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What does smart growth mean?
to teach something that is growing so it is smart
to grow something that is smart
to control sprawl by making use of land that is developed
to control sprawl by buying land from other countries
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The Galactic City or Edge City Model are the EXACT SAME as the
Harris Peripheral Model
Hoyt Sector Model
Harris/Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model
Burgess Concentric Model
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Which is NOT an example of a primate city?
Vienna
Paris
Chicago
London
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What is redlining?
Maps that noted black neighborhoods in red as not credit-worthy.
Government putting red lines through neighborhoods planned for destruction.
Racial covenants against selling a house to a Black family
Banks refusing to loan money to Black families so they went into the red.
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City growth generally follows a concentric circle model created by...
Burgess
Saffir-Simpson
Hoyt
Beaufort
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Gentrification ...
Is bad
Is good
I have no clue what this term is!!!
Has positives and negatives
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What is redlining?
Color coded map of areas where not loan money, a division based on race
Lines on a map that let banks know what interest to include on a home loan
Border that separate neighborhoods by school systems
Lines that only superstar neighborhoods by race
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What is a Favela?
A rescue home for animals
A city centre homless community
A slum in South America
A gated community
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New Urbanism attempts to emphasize
Expansion of transportation through beltways
Environmental friendly urban planning
Sprawling communities that occupy large spaces
Use of mass transportation systems to limit traffic
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Where does this city model take place?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America
East Asia
Middle East and North Africa
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One goal of New Urbanism
Focus on methods of transit
To re-centralize the city
Is to achieve zero-urban growth
improve the built environment
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Where does this city model take place?
North Africa and Middle East
Latin America
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Which of the following is most likely to have the smallest range and threshold population?
computer store
grocery store
movie theater
research hospital
46
What is gentrification?
a plan for the elderly so they do not have to pay full price for medication
clean up a poor city area, add upgraded housing for prosperous residents
calm and peaceful attitude
street identification bus and train routes as transportation for residents
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What is a primate city?
The most populous city in a country
The city with the most cultural value in a country
The most important city in a country
The city with the most land mass in a country
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What causes white flight?
Post WWII housing shortages
Blockbusting
Redlining
All of the above
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Brownfields are
soils that are rich with nutrients for crops
superfund sites setup by the CERCLA
sites designated for building and growth in cities
contaminated industrial/commercial sites that require cleanup
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The area served by a node (city, village, hamlet...)
hinterland
threshold
range
zone of transition
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Range is defined as
The number of services available in a city
The minimum number of customers a business needs to profit
The area where a business will deliver products
How far a person will travel for a service
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What are brownfields?
A property that is contaminated with toxic waste
An area comprised of only one ethnicity
An area which lacks goods or services
An area of the city covered in mud
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Conurbation of Boston, New York, DC metro area:
threshold
maquiladora
megalopolis
megacity
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What is this model?
Peripheral model
Multiple nuclei model
Sector model
Christallers urban hierarchy
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What city model is this?
model of Latin American city
Model of subsaharan African city
Model of southeast Asian city
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A group of houses larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, might be a...
Fringe City
Village
Edge City
Hamlet
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What was White Flight?
the 1956 law that authorized $32 billion on highway spending
Increased Birth rate over the nation during 19502
Pelicans migrating south for the winter
white people fled to surburbs leaving inner-cities to decay
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Describe the appearance of a city represented as a Multiple Nuclei model.
A country with a complex structure
A city with a complex structure
A city with a simple structure
Mr. Green's classroom
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Range, threshold, hinterland, & the hierarchy of urban functions (goods, services, activities):
the Hoyt Model
Mackinder's Heartland Theory
Christaller's Central Place Theory
the Bid-Rent Curve
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All of the following are examples of world cities EXCEPT for
Detroit
London
Tokyo
New York City
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What is Greenbelt land?
A place where people live and travel elsewhere for work.
The area around a city where development is restricted
A programme designed to improve inner city area
Land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes
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what model is this?
Multi Nuclei
Sector
Conceteric
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1st urban hearth
Nile Valley
Mesopotamia
Yangtze Valley
Indus Valley
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Which of the following ethnic groups was most adversely affected by blockbusting?
Asian Americans
Caucasians
African Americans
Hispanics
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Smart Growth
Trading in your iPhone 5 for a iPhone 6 plus
An app
having an educated group of people control growth
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl
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What is the name for an area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted?
primate city
hinterland
edge city
census tract
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What is true of the rank size rule?
There is no such thing as the rank size rule
largest city would be n and the next biggest would be 1/n...
Primate cities are always the lowest rank
Whichever country is the biggest, has the biggest influence
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Galactic City Model
Peripheral Model
Super Model
Concentric Zone Model
Sector Model
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What does the Gravity Model state?
Some places are drawn to each other
Urban hearths were mostly in river valleys
Closer/larger places have more interaction than small/far
Conurbations are a trend of the near future
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Define World / Global City
Centers of economic and cultural authority
Places of population greater than 1 million per 10 km2
Places of a GDP greater than 1.1 billion
Large cities situated near coastlines
