Unit 7 Flashcards
Examples of site
High point over looking a river
Confluence of 2 rivers
Mouth of a river
Shores of a natural harbor
What is the population of the 4th largest city if the rank size rule applies if the largest city has 1 million people
250,000
What concerns are there for a developing counties where the rank size rule doesn’t apply
Unequal development
Bad accessibility
Brain drain
Disproportionate effects of disaster
How has composition of the world’s most populated cities changed since 1950
More LDC’s
What factors have contributed to rapid urbanization in LDC’s?
Job opportunities for rural and displaced
Cultural amenities
Cities in NA and Europe have urbanized rapidly since what time frame
Industrial rev
Block busting contributed to
White flight
A bank engages in (blank) if they wouldn’t grant mortgages to people living in certain area codes or neighborhoods
Redlining
Who is most likely to move into revitalized urban downtown areas
People without kids and have jobs Sinks Dinks Yuppies Recent college grads White collar empty nesters
What factors helped suburbanization
Post WWII
Gov programs to help vets
Highways
Brown vs board of education
In NA high class residential neighborhoods are (blank)? Europe?
Far from CBD
Near CBD
Main visual diff between NA and European cities is
Less skyscrapers in Europe
Suburban developments suffer from a lack of (blank) and social (blank)
Diversity
Isolation
Negative environmental consequences of urban sprawl
Air pollution, water overconsumption, loss of habitats, loss of valuable green space and land
According to bid rent, as you get closer to the CBD
Price goes up
Trend of metropolitan residents moving to rural areas and small towns is
Counter urbanization
Environmentally, how does New Urbanism help?
Development of green space, less crowding, more public amenities
Transition of a low income neighborhood to a wealthier neighborhood is an example of
Gentrification
Green belt policy
Encourages city growth in the CORE
Blockbusting was a (blank) movement
Racial
gated communities are known for (blank) income and (blank) lifestyles.
High
Elite
Since 1980s here has seven a trend to build suburbs and edge cities in the US where?
Farther and farther from the CBD
Redlining is practiced by
Banks and lending institutions
Suburbanization causes cities to (blank) which leads to (blank)
Lose population
Urban
2 components that enabled the formation of cities
AG surplus and social stratification
Where did cities start
Mesopotamia
When the largest city is inversely proportional to the next largest cities
Rank size rule
Paris and Mexico City are both
Primate cities
Primate cities are (blank) of the next largest city
More than double the size
The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in the peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in
Edge cities
Practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in a neighborhood is called
Gentrification
Process where by an increasing percent of people live in an urban area is
Urbanization
The industrial rev promoted
Urbanization
Of the 10 largest cities in the world how many are in MDC’s
2
Process of legally adding land area to a city in the US is
Annexation
A megalopolis is
Adjacent overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas or MSAs
Process of change of use in a house from single family to abandonment is
Filtering
In the US the underclass is clustered
In the inner city
Development of green space in cities, less crowing, and more public amenities is referred to as
New urbanism
Physical qualifies of the original location of a city is
Site
