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Frazzle

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?The game of

getting the words just right

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!Services

Round 1?

Market Area

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Rank Size Rule

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Threshold

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Business, Public, and Consumer

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Offshore Financial and Back Office Functions

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Gravity Model

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Hinterland

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!Answer

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Market Area

• The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

#1

Rank Size Rule

• When a country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest

settlement• Without rank-size rule, an LDCs services

will not be evenly distributed throughout the country

#2

Threshold

• The minimum number of people needed to support a service

#3

Business, Public and Consumer

• 3 types of services

#4

Offshore Financial and Back Office Functions

• 2 types of business services that LDC’s specialize in

#5

Gravity Model

• The optimal location of a business is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely

related to the distance they must travel

#6

Hinterland

• A.K.A. Market area

#7

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!Urbanization

Round 2?

Multiple Nuclei Model

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Zone of Transition

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Bid Rent Theory

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Redlining

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Elite Spine

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Filtering

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Squatter Settlement

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!Answer

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Multiple Nuclei Model

• Created by Ullman and Harris in 1945

• A city is a complex structure that includes more than one center around which activities revolve

#1

Zone of Transition

• The zone closest to the CBD in the Concentric Zone Model

• Where industry and poorer quality homes are

#2

Bid Rent Theory

• Theory that land decreases in value as it moves away from the CBD, but

intersections of major roads far from the CBD can dramatically

increase in land value

#3

Redlining

• When banks draw a line on a map where they will not loan to poor

people within that area

#4

Elite Spine

• In the Latin American model, the wedge that extends from the CBD

where rich people live

#5

Filtering

• Subdividing large houses into multiple smaller dwellings for lower

income people

#6

Squatter Settlement

• Only in Latin American models • On the outer layer of the city

• Periferico

#7

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!Resources and Cities

Round 3?

Preservation

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Fossil Fuels

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Nonrenewable Resources

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#3

Central Business District

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Edge Cities

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World Cities

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Urban Sprawl

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!Answer

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Preservation

• Maintenance of resources in their present condition with as little

human impact as possible

#1

Fossil Fuels

• Petroleum, natural gas and coal

#2

Nonrenewable Resources

• Forms very slowly and cannot renew itself for human consumption

• Examples-fossil fuels

#3

Central Business District

• Downtown area of a city• When a city was founded, the CBD

was always the center of transportation routes

#4

Edge Cities

• Cities that form on the fringe of urban areas along the highways

#5

World Cities

• Cities with significant global financial functions, where international

companies have headquarters, and which has a polarized social structure

(poor and rich)

#6

Urban Sprawl

• Progressive spread of development of a city over the landscape into the

suburbs

#7

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!Miscellaneous Hodge-Podge

Round 4?

Brian Berry

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Gentrification

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Annexation

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Primate City

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Smart Growth

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Louis Worth

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Metropolitan Statistical Area

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!Answer

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Brian Berry

• Applied Central Place Theory to the U.S. Midwest in the 1950s

#1

Gentrification

• Middle class moves into deteriorating inner city

neighborhoods and renovates

#2

Annexation

• Legally adding land to a city (will have better city services, but pay

more taxes)

#3

Primate City

• When the largest city in a country is more than twice the size of the

second city (causes disproportioned services in one place)

#4

Smart Growth

• Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve

farmland (practiced in Ohio, Tennessee, New Jersey, Rhode

Island, Washington and Maryland)

#5

Louis Worth

• Sociologist who created 3 categories to distinguish between urban and

rural settlements-Urban areas have large size, high population density

and are socially heterogeneous

#6

Metropolitan Statistical Area

• Urbanized area with at least 50,000 people, the county within which the

city is located, adjacent counties with a high population density of

residents working in the central city

#7