Urban Geo

Question 1

Central Business District

Answer 1

A concentration of business and commerce in the city’s downtown.

Question 2

Urban

Answer 2

The built-up space of the central city and suburbs.

Question 3

City

Answer 3

A mass collection of people and buildings clustered togethered

Question 4

Social Stratification

Answer 4

Emergence of social classes

Question 5

First urban revoloution

Answer 5

The innovation of the city occurred independently in six different hearths.

Question 6

Urban Hearths (Mesopotamia, etc…)

Answer 6

The Areas where the world’s first cities were established or evolved.

Question 7

Secondary Hearth

Answer 7

An early adopter of a cultural practice or trait that becomes a central locale from which the practice or trait further diffuses.

Question 8

Second urban revolution

Answer 8

Large cities of industry developed in quick succession and urbanization was prevalent.

Question 9

Site

Answer 9

Its absolute location, often chosen for advantages in trade or defense, or as a center for religious practice.

Question 10

Situation

Answer 10

Its position in relation to its role in the larger, surrounding context.

Question 11

Trade areas

Answer 11

The adjacent region within which a city’s influence is dominant

Question 12

Rank-size rule

Answer 12

In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.

Question 13

Primate city

Answer 13

State’s leading city economically and culturally.

Question 14

Central place theory

Answer 14

Set of assumptions for the perfect layout of the urban hierarchy.

Question 15

Functional zonation

Answer 15

The division of the city into certain regions (zones) for certain purposes (functions).

Question 16

Central city

Answer 16

The older city, not the newer suburbs.

Question 17

Suburbs

Answer 17

An outlying functionally uniform part of an urban area and is often (but not always) adjacent to the central city.

Question 18

Suburbanization

Answer 18

People and businesses from the city move to land previously outside the urban area.

Question 19

Edge city

Answer 19

an urban area with a large suburban residential and business area surrounding it.

Question 20

Galactic city

Answer 20

Complex urban area in which centrality of functions is no longer significant.

Question 21

Megacities

Answer 21

an urban or metropolitan area which has a population over 10 million people.

Question 22

Concentric zone model

Answer 22

describes expansion in concentric rings around the central business district.

Question 23

Sector model

Answer 23

A model of urban land use proposed in 1939 by land economist Homer Hoyt.

Question 24

Multiple nuclei model

Answer 24

A city that does not have one central area, but instead has several nodes that act as regional centers for economic or residential activity within one larger city.

Question 25

Shantytowns

Answer 25

Unplanned developments of crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and pieces of cardboard that develop around cities.

Question 26

Disamenity sector

Answer 26

Very poorest parts of cities that are in extreme cases not connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs and drug lords.

Question 27

Zoning laws

Answer 27

Cities are divided up and laws designate the kind of development allowed in each zone.

Question 28

Redlining

Answer 28

a discriminatory practice in which financial institutions and other organizations deny or limit financial services, insurance, or other resources to residents of certain areas, typically because those areas are predominantly inhabited by racial or ethnic minorities.

Question 29

Blockbusting

Answer 29

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.

Question 30

Gentrification

Answer 30

The rehabilitation of deteriorated houses in low-income neighborhoods to attract buyers to move back into the city.

Question 31

Urban sprawl

Answer 31

the expansion of cities and urban areas into surrounding rural or undeveloped land.

Question 32

New urbanism

Answer 32

Create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.

Question 33

Informal economy

Answer 33

The economy that is not taxed and is not counted towards a country’s gross national income.

Question 34

Spaces of consumption

Answer 34

Places where items are consumed.