Terms

Question 1

Taxonomy

Answer 1

system of classification (design, function, social actors)

Question 2

Contiguous

Answer 2

sharing a common border

Question 3

Continental

Answer 3

Not Hawaii, Alaska, or US territories

Question 4

Historiography

Answer 4

history of the history we write

Question 5

Urban

Answer 5

physical and built environment

Question 6

Urbanization

Answer 6

different than urban, has to do with creation of relationships, i.e. services of the place like infrastructure, not having to do with population

Question 7

City

Answer 7

a legal title, recognition of importance, invokes protection, citizen responsibility

Question 8

John Winthrop’s “A City on a Hill” Sermon

Answer 8

creating communities where you’re surveilled and responsible to a higher power… “A Model of Christian Charity”

Question 9

V. Gordon Childe’s “The Urban Revolution”

Answer 9

3 stages of human development: neolithic, urban, industrial

Question 10

5 accepted stages of urbanization

Answer 10

1. European colonial development (1600s-1810)
2. Continental urban system (1810-1870)
3. Immigration and industrial heartland (1870-1920)
4. Transformation of cities (1920-1970)
5. Stabilization and communication (1970-now)

Question 11

Thomas Moore’s “Utopia” (1516)

Answer 11

no greed, corruption, or power struggles because there’s no money or private property

Question 12

Taxonomies of Spanish Towns

Answer 12

• presidios: military outposts and forts
• missions: Christianizing efforts
• pueblos: civic and residential life

Question 13

Laws of the Indies (1573)

Answer 13

• layout and colonial grid
• building standards
• indigenous land
• sanitation and waste

Question 14

features of a pueblo

Answer 14

• grid
• central plaza
• fortifications