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Urban Flashcards

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What is a metropolitan area?

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A large city (more than 100 000 people) and the attached urban areas not directly part of the city

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What is a city?

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Group of more than 10 000 people

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What is considered urban?

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More than 1000 people living together in a city or town

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How do cities start?

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  1. As transportation stop areas
  2. As a central place for providing markets and services
  3. As a special function city built around a specific industry
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5
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Where do cities form?

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  1. Transport routes (with water)
  2. Flat land
  3. Close to some industry
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What is urbanization?

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Increase in population density and expansion of urban functions

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What are factors that influence rural settlement?

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  1. Resource
  2. Transportation (settlement occurs near roads)
  3. Role played by government policy (Some areas settle with gov input, others settled based on a survey system - a set of rules that controls how a land will be settled)
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What are some historical types of rural settlement?

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Long lots of Southern Quebec, Concession System of Southern Ontario, Section System of Southern Praries

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9
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Why are rural places so scattered?

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The presence of resources, or they can earn a living by providing services to passerbys

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What is rural depopulation?

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The decline in population in rural areas and small communities

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What is a hamlet?

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A small settlement in a rural area, not governed by its local municipal corporation

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What is a village?

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Clustered community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. Often in rural areas (population goes from 100s to few 1000s)

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What is a town?

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Human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city

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14
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What % of urban land is residential land?

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40%

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15
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What % of urban land is transportation?

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32%

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16
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What % of urban land is commercial land?

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5%

17
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What % of urban land is industrial land?

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6%

18
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What % of urban land is institutional land?

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10%

19
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What % of urban land is open space?

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7%

20
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What are basic industries?

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Industries that provides community services to outside cities and brings money to provide economic growth

21
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What are non-basic industries?

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Don’t generate new money from outside the community (recycles the money)

22
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What are low order goods?

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Low prices, people buy frequently (bakery, butcher, news agent)

23
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What are middle order goods?

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Medium priced, occasionally bought - but need a larger threshold population (doctor)

24
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What are high order goods?

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Expensive, purchased infrequently, needs large population to work (furniture shops, electronic shops, hospitals, travel agents)

25
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Do land use patterns develop by change?

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No, there are people deciding what type of home to live in, what kind of government to have, where to work

26
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What are factors affecting land use patterns?

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Land value, zoning, technology, climate

27
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What are some examples of Institutional & Public Buildings?

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Schools, hospitals, government, churches, police + fire stations

28
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What are some examples of Open Space & Recreational Land?

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Parks, playgrounds, fields, gold courses, community arenas

29
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What are the types of Industrial land uses?

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Suburban business parks. suburban industrial parks, ribbon industries, CBD industries

30
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What are the types of commercial land uses?

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Local service centres, neighbourhood plazas & ribbons, community malls, power centres, regional malls

31
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What are the 3 types of residential land uses?

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Low + medium + high density homes

32
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What are the types of transportation routes?

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Expressways, arterial roads, collector roads, local roads

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