Vocabs 41-50

Question 1

World/global Cities

Answer 1

cities that exert influence far beyond their natural boundaries (ex: London, Paris, NYC, Shanghai, Tokyo)

Question 2

Functional Zonation

Answer 2

The idea that proportions of an urban area (region/zones) have specific and distinct purposes

Question 2

Central Business District (CBD)

Answer 2

The commercial heart of a city (ex: downtown)

Question 3

Concentric Zone Model

Answer 3

a city conveyed as a series of rings that surrounds a CBD (aka Burgess Model)

Question 4

Zone of Transition

Answer 4

the first ring surrounding a CBD; includes industrial uses with poorer quality housing

Question 5

Sector Model

Answer 5

a model conveying the different types of land use and housing in relation to a CBD; each land use grow outward from the city in wedges; conveys sectors of land for low/medium/high income housing and transportation from the edge to the center of the city (aka Hoyt Model)

Question 6

Multiple-Nuclei Model

Answer 6

conveyed that functional donation occurred around centers/nodes resulting in a patchwork of land uses with a center for each (aka Harris-Ullman Model)

Question 7

Peripheral Model

Answer 7

A variant of the multiple-nuclei model; describes suburban neighborhoods surrounding an inner city and serves by nodes of commercial activity along a ring road/beltway

Question 8

Galactic City Model

Answer 8

describes the spread of the US cities outward from the CBD to the suburbs

Question 9

Edge cities

Answer 9

nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities (Ex: The Woodland’s waterway business and shopping district outside of Houston)