Final

Question 1

Urban

Answer 1

Town or city

Question 2

Social Heterogeneity

Answer 2

a society or group that includes individuals of differing ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, sexes, or ages.

Question 3

Definition of a City

Answer 3

A large town

Question 4

Urbanized area

Answer 4

A settlement with a high pop. density. must encompass at least 5,000 people or at least 2,000 housing units

Question 5

MSA

Answer 5

Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

Question 6

CMSA

Answer 6

Combined MSA, a geographic region that combines multiple Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) that are closely linked economically and socially, essentially signifying a larger urban area encompassing multiple cities and their surrounding suburbs.

Question 7

Megalopolises

Answer 7

A group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on. A large city

Question 8

World Cities

Answer 8

a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network

Question 9

Site and situation

Answer 9

Site is the exact location of a city, you can find it on a map. The situation of a city relates to its surrounding features, both human-made and natural

Question 10

Primate City

Answer 10

a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy.

Question 11

Redlining

Answer 11

the practice of denying people access to credit because of where they live, even if they are personally qualified for loans.

Question 12

Blockbusting

Answer 12

the practice of persuading owners to sell property cheaply because of the fear of people of another ethnic or social group moving into the neighborhood, and then profiting by reselling at a higher price.

Question 13

Gentrification

Answer 13

the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

Question 14

Slum Clearance

Answer 14

Slum clearance in the United States has been used as an urban renewal strategy to regenerate derelict or run-down districts.

Question 15

Urban Renewal

Answer 15

involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments.

Question 16

CBD

Answer 16

the central business district (CBD) is where a large amount of businesses are located

Question 17

What is filtering

Answer 17

the process where housing in a neighborhood gradually moves down the social scale as higher-income residents move to newer, better quality homes, leaving their old homes available to lower-income groups

Question 18

Zoning Ordinance

Answer 18

imposes such reasonable limitation upon the right of a property owner to use his property as he pleases, as may be determined by considerations of public health, safety, and welfare.

Question 19

In what 2 ways are suburban areas segregated

Question 20

Bulk gaining vs. Bulk Reducing industry

Question 21

Factors in transporting goods

Answer 21

Cost, weight, and distance

Question 22

Primary economic sector

Answer 22

The primary sector includes all those activities the end purpose of which consists in exploiting natural resources: agriculture, fishing, forestry, mining, and deposits.

Question 23

Secondary economic sector

Answer 23

manufacturing industry. The secondary sector definition is the production of finished goods, and it is comprised of industries such as manufacturing, construction, and utilities.

Question 23

Tertiary economic sector

Answer 23

Service Sector

Question 24

Quaternary economic sector

Answer 24

Intellect, knowledge-based economy

Question 25

Indicators of level of development

Answer 25

Trade, imports, exports, GDP, life expectancy, fertility rates, education, etc.

Question 26

Factors/effects of development

Answer 26

Good jobs in rural areas, more clean energy, fighting deforestation and climate change, tax revenue and payments to developing countries …

Question 27

HDI

Answer 27

The HDI is a summary measure of human development. How is it defined? The HDI is a summary composite measure of a country’s average achievements in three basic aspects of human development: health, knowledge and standard of living.

Question 28

GDP

Answer 28

Gross Domestic Product, A comprehensive measure of U.S. economic activity. GDP measures the value of the final goods and services produced

Question 29

GNI

Answer 29

Gross national income (GNI) is the aggregate value of the gross balances of primary incomes for all sectors. GNI is the gross domestic product, plus net receipts from abroad of compensation of employees, property income and net taxes less subsidies on production.

Question 30

What is income inequality?

Answer 30

how unevenly income is distributed throughout a population. The less equal the distribution, the greater the income inequality

Question 31

Neocolonialism

Answer 31

the continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries

Question 32

Economic Imperialism

Answer 32

a situation in which one country has a lot of economic power or influence over others

Question 33

Rostow’s economic model

Answer 33

traditional society, preconditions to take-off, take-off, drive to maturity, and age of high mass consumption

Question 34

Wallerstein’s economic model

Answer 34

Rich core capitalist societies succeed by exploiting poorer peripheral ones

Question 35

Comparative advantage

Answer 35

measures opportunity cost instead of actual cost

Question 36

Opportunity costs

Answer 36

Opportunity cost is the potential forgone profit from a missed opportunity—the result of choosing one alternative over another.

Question 37

What is an edge city?

Answer 37

An area becomes an edge city when there is a concentration of firms, and entertainment and shopping centers in a previously known rural or residential area.