UNIT 6 - CH 15

Question 1

Basic industry

Answer 1

Iron and steel industry - in the 19th and 20th century - which was considered the foundational economic activity

Question 2

Boomburb

Answer 2

A suburb that has grown rapidly in to a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

Question 3

Christaller’s Central Place Theory

Answer 3

A theory formed by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations

Question 4

Decentralization

Answer 4

Movement away from the central center - new areas develop “streetcar suburbs” - develop outside of core areas of cities - “railroad suburbs” - areas that develop due to rail access expanding to surrounding areas of the city

Question 5

Edge city

Answer 5

Type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city

Question 6

Exurb

Answer 6

Fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

Question 7

Gravity model

Answer 7

A model that holds the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service

Question 8

Hamlet

Answer 8

Small village

Question 9

Infill

Answer 9

Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas. Helps to counter sprawl because it focuses on areas already served by transportation and other public infrastructure

Question 10

Megacity

Answer 10

A city with more that 10 million people

Question 11

Metacity

Answer 11

A city with a population over 20 million metropolitan area - a city and its surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

Question 12

Primate city

Answer 12

A city that far exceeds in population size and influence

Question 13

Range

Answer 13

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a good or service

Question 14

Rank-size rule

Answer 14

A pattern of settlements in a country, such as the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. The rule explains how population size of citied within a country may be distributes. It uses a country’s largest city as a baseline and ranks all other cities in relation to it

Question 15

Redevelopment

Answer 15

Focuses on converting an existing property to another, more desirable use

Question 16

Revitalization

Answer 16

Focuses on instilling new life into a community by reusing or renovating buildings and beautifying an area through landscaping rural area - an area of small towns or farms

Question 17

Suburb

Answer 17

A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls

Question 18

Suburbanization

Answer 18

Movement of people from the central city to the outskirts - causes the land area that a metropolitan area takes up to expand, but the population of the central city does not necessarily grow

Question 19

Telecommunications

Answer 19

Communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcasting

Question 20

Threshold

Answer 20

The minimum number of people needed to support a good or service

Question 21

Transportation (system)

Answer 21

Waterways, railroads, and highways that provide a means for raw materials to get to factories and goods to get to market and for workers to access jobs

Question 22

Urban

Answer 22

City urban area - a city and its surrounding suburbs

Question 23

Urban cluster

Answer 23

In the United States, an urban area with between 2500 and 49,999 inhabitants

Question 24

Urban hierarchy

Answer 24

A ranking of cities based on their size and functional complexity

Question 25

Urban sprawl

Answer 25

Urban areas expand in an unplanned and uncontrolled way, covering large expanses of land in housing, commercial development and roads

Question 26

Urbanization

Answer 26

The process of development of dense concentrations of people into settlements

Question 27

Urbanized area

Answer 27

In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants

Question 28

World Cities (Global Cities)

Answer 28

Centers of economic and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce (examples include: New York City, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires…)