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Unit 7 Flashcards

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1
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Examples of site

A

High point over looking a river
Confluence of 2 rivers
Mouth of a river
Shores of a natural harbor

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What is the population of the 4th largest city if the rank size rule applies if the largest city has 1 million people

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250,000

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What concerns are there for a developing counties where the rank size rule doesn’t apply

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Unequal development
Bad accessibility
Brain drain
Disproportionate effects of disaster

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How has composition of the world’s most populated cities changed since 1950

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More LDC’s

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What factors have contributed to rapid urbanization in LDC’s?

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Job opportunities for rural and displaced

Cultural amenities

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6
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Cities in NA and Europe have urbanized rapidly since what time frame

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Industrial rev

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Block busting contributed to

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White flight

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A bank engages in (blank) if they wouldn’t grant mortgages to people living in certain area codes or neighborhoods

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Redlining

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Who is most likely to move into revitalized urban downtown areas

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People without kids and have jobs 
Sinks
Dinks
Yuppies
Recent college grads
White collar empty nesters
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What factors helped suburbanization

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Post WWII
Gov programs to help vets
Highways
Brown vs board of education

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In NA high class residential neighborhoods are (blank)? Europe?

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Far from CBD

Near CBD

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12
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Main visual diff between NA and European cities is

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Less skyscrapers in Europe

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Suburban developments suffer from a lack of (blank) and social (blank)

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Diversity

Isolation

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Negative environmental consequences of urban sprawl

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Air pollution, water overconsumption, loss of habitats, loss of valuable green space and land

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According to bid rent, as you get closer to the CBD

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Price goes up

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Trend of metropolitan residents moving to rural areas and small towns is

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Counter urbanization

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17
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Environmentally, how does New Urbanism help?

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Development of green space, less crowding, more public amenities

18
Q

Transition of a low income neighborhood to a wealthier neighborhood is an example of

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Gentrification

19
Q

Green belt policy

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Encourages city growth in the CORE

20
Q

Blockbusting was a (blank) movement

A

Racial

21
Q

gated communities are known for (blank) income and (blank) lifestyles.

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High

Elite

22
Q

Since 1980s here has seven a trend to build suburbs and edge cities in the US where?

A

Farther and farther from the CBD

23
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Redlining is practiced by

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Banks and lending institutions

24
Q

Suburbanization causes cities to (blank) which leads to (blank)

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Lose population

Urban

25
Q

2 components that enabled the formation of cities

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AG surplus and social stratification

26
Q

Where did cities start

A

Mesopotamia

27
Q

When the largest city is inversely proportional to the next largest cities

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Rank size rule

28
Q

Paris and Mexico City are both

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Primate cities

29
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Primate cities are (blank) of the next largest city

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More than double the size

30
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The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in the peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in

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Edge cities

31
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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

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Gentrification

32
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Process where by an increasing percent of people live in an urban area is

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Urbanization

33
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The industrial rev promoted

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Urbanization

34
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Of the 10 largest cities in the world how many are in MDC’s

A

2

35
Q

Process of legally adding land area to a city in the US is

A

Annexation

36
Q

A megalopolis is

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Adjacent overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas or MSAs

37
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Process of change of use in a house from single family to abandonment is

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Filtering

38
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In the US the underclass is clustered

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In the inner city

39
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Development of green space in cities, less crowing, and more public amenities is referred to as

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New urbanism

40
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Physical qualifies of the original location of a city is

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