Handout 9 - Cities and Urbanization - Test 2 Flashcards
Did you watch the movie Urbainzed? If not you need to.
What is a site?
Area of ground on which a town, building, or monument is constructed.
What is a situation?
The location and surroundings of a place.
What is Walter Christaller’s central place theory,
explanation of the spatial arrangement, size, and number of settlements. The theory models settlement locations in a HEXAGONAL pattern to examine and define settlement structure and the size of the hinterland.
What is the industrial revolution and its consequences on the growth of cities and processes of urbanization?
In Europe, it is a period of scientific and technological development in the 18th century that transformed largely rural, agrarian societies into industrialized, urban ones.
The IR caused towns to turn into cities and existing cities to swell in terms of population (with new arrivals from Europe and rural areas of the US) as well as their geographic footprint now that they were home to factories and other buildings required in manufacturing.
What is slum?
low or substandard housing areas.
What is concentric zone model?
According to the concentric zone urban model, a city grows in a series of rings around the central business district. (looks like a bullseye) (refer to paget 386 in text book for image)
What is sector model?
In this model of urban form, a city grows out from the central business district in wedges, or corridors, of various land uses. Circle in the middle then wedges out. (Refer to page 386 in text book for image)
What is multiple nuclei model?
In this model of urban form, acity consists of a collection of individual nodes or centers around which different types of activities and people cluster.
multiple individual notes or centers (Refer to page 386 in text book for image)
What is the peripheral model?
In this model, which describes the growth of U.S. metropolitan areas in the last half of the 20th century, activities dispersed throughout a broad region. Rectangle in the middle then dispersed activities outside the circle (Refer to page 386 in text book for image)
What is suburbia?
The suburbs, or areas within a metropolitan area which has a higher or lower population density and less detached housing.
What is gentrification?
The occupation and restoration of select urban residential neighborhoods by wealthy urban white-collar workers
Where were the first cities developed?
Mesopotamia
What are the legal, political, economic, and social issues associated with the growth of ‘slums’ in less economically-developed countries
LEGAL- slum dwellers often lacked ownership or secure tenure of the land they occupied
POLITICAL - governments may struggle to formulate effective policies to address slums due to competing priorities and corruption
Inadequate urban planning can lead to haphazard growth and insufficient infrastructure and an excluding of slum areas from development plans
ECONOMIC - slums are a manifestation of urban poverty. Lack of income generation opportunities, unemployment and rising income inequality
SOCIAL - overcrowding, inadequate sanitation facilities, poor hygiene contributes to health risks, limited access to quality education, negative steriotypes
