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Question:What is the name of this urban model?

Answer:The Concentric Zone Model

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Question:What is the name of

this urban model?

Answer:The Multiple Nuclei

Model

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Question:Explain how this urban model, the Sector Model, is different than the

Concentric Zone Model.

Answer:In the concentric zone model, a city grows in a series of rings

surrounding the CBD.

In the sector model, a city grows in a series of wedges or corridors extending out from the CBD.

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Question:What is the main principle of the Peripheral model?

Answer:The central city is surrounded by a ring road,

around which are suburban areas and edge cities, shopping malls, office parks, industrial areas, and

service complexes.

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Question:What is the name of this

urban model, what is the narrow area

between the CBD and the Mall known as,

and which people will live closest to that

area?

Answer:Latin American Model, the Spine, the wealthy

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Question:City established by colonizing empires as

administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.

Answer:Colonial City

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Question:An extensive concentration of urbanized

settlement formed by a coalescence of several metropolitan areas. The term is

commonly applied to the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the U.S.

extending from Boston, MA to Washington, D.C.

Answer:Megalopolis

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Question:What is a shock city?

Answer:Urban place experiencing infrastructural challenges related to massive and rapid

urbanization.

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Question:A term used to describe the shifting focus of urbanization in the United States away from the Central Business District (CBD) toward

economic activity at the urban fringe.

Answer:Edge City

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Question:What is a world city, and what are the three

most important world cities?

Answer:A city in which a disproportionate part of

the world's most important business is conducted. Dominant city in terms of its

role in the global political economy.

New York, Tokyo, London

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Question:Which major category of services do the most

Americans work in?

Answer:Consumer Services

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Question:What is the name of the employment sector

that encompasses all service industries?

Answer:Tertiary

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Question:What has been the primary cause of the rapid

increase in the personal-service sector?

Answer:A very large increase in the provision of

healthcare services.

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Question:

The service sector of the economy is subdivided into what three

major types?

Answer:Consumer, Business, Public

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Question:For each of the following jobs, name the service sector they

would fall under of the three major types.insurance agent, teachers, fire fighter, actress, real estate

agent, FedEx driver, sales clerk

Answer:insurance agent (business)

teacher (consumer)fire fighter (public)actress (consumer)

real estate agent (business) FedEx driver (business) sales clerk (consumer)

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Question:Almost all world cities can be found on which

three continents?

Answer:North America, Europe, Asia

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Question:This fourth-level of cities provides relatively

unskilled jobs and depend for their economic health on decisions made in the

world cities, regional command and control centers, and specialized producer-

service centers.

Answer:Dependent Centers

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Question:This second level of cities contains the

headquarters of many large corporations, concentrations of business services,

educational, medical, and public institutions.

Answer:Command and Control Centers

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Question:Industrial and military cities are an example

of which type of city?

Answer:Dependent Centers

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Question:What type of city would each of the following

be?Detroit, Orlando, Los Angeles, Atlanta

Answer:Detroit (Specialized Producer-Service Center)

Orlando (Dependent Center)Los Angeles (World City)

Atlanta (Command and Control Center)

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Question:The percentage of people living in these

settlements, slums, and other illegal housing ranges from 33 percent in São

Paulo, Brazil, to 85 percent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to a U.N. study.

Answer:Squatter Settlements

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Question:The illegal act of banks drawing lines on a

map to identify areas in which they will refuse to loan money.

Answer:Redlining

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Question:What process is being described below?

Landlords stop maintaining houses when the rent they collect becomes less than the maintenance cost.

The building soon deteriorates and grows unfit for occupancy.

At this point, the owner may abandon the property, because the rents that can be collected are less than the cost of

taxes and upkeep.

Answer:Filtering

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Question:What is a “scatter site” and what were they

designed to fix?

Answer:Public housing units that are dispersed throughout

the city rather than clustered in a large project.

The hope was that spreading out low-income families around the city would lesson the amount

of high crime and drug abuse seen in highly concentrated low-income environments.

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Question:Based on this map of

downtown Chicago, we can make assumptions about clustering, and migration patterns. What are they?

Answer:Different ethnicities seem to

be clustered together in different parts of the city.

More whites are moving to the city center, while more minorities are moving to

the outer edges of the city.

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Question:

The idea that the number of houses per unit of land diminishes as distance from the center city

increases.

Answer:Density Gradient

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Question:What is the rank-size rule?

Answer:A pattern of settlements in a country, such

that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

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Question:Any point or place in the urban hierarchy,

such as a town or city, having a certain economic reach or hinterland.

Answer:Central Place

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Question:Name each of the two rural settlement patterns displayed here? What were the benefits

of each?

Answer:Clustered settlements could reinforce common cultural and religious values while providing defense against First American

attacks.

Linear settlements had fields extending behind the buildings in long, narrow strips to make tending the fields easier, while

homes were still relatively close.

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Question:How can you tell if a type of business is a basic economic activity or basic industry for a certain

city?

Answer:A community’s basic industries can be identified by

computing the percentage of the community’s workers employed in

that business.

If the percentage is much higher in the local community,

(compared to the country), then that type of business is a basic economic activity.

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