6.2 (Pgs. 375-379)

Question 1

Suburbanization

Answer 1

involves the process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.

Question 2

^ Causes of USA suburbanization

Answer 2

Economic expansion, greater purchasing power for many families, the growth of a car-centered lifestyle, and the government’s construction of a vast system of new highways that allowed workers to commute from their city jobs to suburban homes.

Question 3

Boombergs

Answer 3

Rapidly growing communities (over 10 percent per 10 years)

Question 4

Edge Cities

Answer 4

Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities.

Question 5

Counter-urbanization (deurbanization)

Answer 5

The counter-flow of urban residents leaving cities.

Question 6

Exurbs

Answer 6

The prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs.

Question 7

Megacities

Answer 7

Have a population of more than 10 million people.

Question 8

Metacities

Answer 8

A continuous urban area with a population greater than 20 million people. Attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown together to form a larger interconnected urban system.

Question 9

Megalopolis

Answer 9

Describes a chain of connected cities.

Question 10

Conurbation

Answer 10

An uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs, and cities.

Question 11

^ Trend of urbanization in the developing world

Answer 11

In the past century, megacities have become more common in less-developed countries because of high birth rates and increased rural-to-urban migration. Of the 20 largest urban areas in the world, 15 were in semiperiphery or periphery countries. Megacities in relatively poor countries face the same challenges as megacities in wealthy countries but without as many resources to respond.