What is a city

Question 1

Political aspects

Answer 1

Municipal jurisdictions

Fixed jurisdiction
Geographic boundaries
Elected leadership
Bureaucratic structure

Question 2

Demographic aspects

WIRTH

Answer 2

Area of concentrated populations

1.population
2.density
3. Heterogeneity
(Diversity) = product of population and density

Question 3

Metropolitan region

Answer 3

These populated areas, may incorporate multiple municipalities

Ex: Vancouver

Question 4

How do cities grow?

Answer 4

Outwardly

Immigration

Question 5

Census metropolitan areas (CMAs)

Answer 5

A total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more must live in the core

Adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core measured by community flows

*represents an area that is economically and socially integrated

Question 6

Urbanism as a way of life

Answer 6

Individualism
Tolerance
Instrumentalist
Social isolation 
Smaller families
Specialized labour: important for mass production, distinct way of life

Question 7

Container

Answer 7

bounded entity - the point where the city begins

Question 8

Metropolitan concentration

Answer 8

Number of inhabitants

Question 9

Metropolitan regionalization

Answer 9

Territory

Question 10

Socio-cultural

Answer 10

Emphasizes the pervasiveness of urban oriented thinking, culture and organization throughout society

Question 11

Internalization

Answer 11

Forced to adapt and fit in

Question 12

Dialectic

Answer 12

Constant tension, of internalization and externalizations

Question 13

Urban community

Answer 13

1000 people

US is min of 2500

Question 14

Urban spread

Answer 14

Urban places often become an amalgamation of municipalities to form an urban region

Question 15

Core countries

Answer 15

Greatest pools of capital
Technological innovation
Management skills

Question 16

Peripheral countries

Answer 16

Poor , cheap labor and resources

Question 17

Horizontal integration

Answer 17

Localized control

Question 18

Vertical disintegration

Answer 18

Specific organizational forms of industrial production

Question 19

Deindustrialization

Answer 19

Decline in industrial s to Katy in a region

Question 20

Post industrial city

Answer 20

Service sector generated more wealth than the manufacturing sector

Question 21

Where have the highest urban growth rates been? But urban slums are at large

Answer 21

Sub Saharan Africa and Asia

Question 22

Over urbanization

Answer 22

New residents cannot be adequately integrated

Question 23

Global or world city

Answer 23

A city that has a heightened position as a command and control centre in the global economy

Question 24

Primate city

Answer 24

Largest city in its country or region

Question 25

Privatism

Answer 25

A tendency to be concerned with ideas or issues only as they affect one as an individual

Question 26

College efficacy

Answer 26

Refers to the ability of members of a immunity to control the behaviour of individuals and groups in a community