AP HuG: Unit VII: Cities & Urban Land Use

The gravity model which can be used to calculate bonds btwn diff urban centers assumes 2 cities located close together

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

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

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

Aland use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

A greenbelt policy encourages a city to curb the amount of construction on a city's edges to encourage growth in

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

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

CentralPlace Theory predicts larger settlements are

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

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

Factorieshave moved to suburban locations in part because of

Megalopolis refers to

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

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

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

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

Themultiple nuclei theory 

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

Residents of edge cities and suburban areas have long depended on cars and public transportation to access

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

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

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

A central place is a 

Today, city planners work to create healthy urban envrnmnts by designing neighborhoods & streets that allow residents to

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

The concentric zone model is portrayed as a series of rings, with the outermost ring being

Accordingto the sector model, the best housing is located in

Thecity plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the

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

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

The hierarchical listing of settlements by proportional size is known as the

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

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

Under the bid rent theory,

Worldcities are defined by

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

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

LDCsspecialize in what two types of global business services?

Landvalues are high in the CBD primarily because of

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

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

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

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

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

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