100 Cities 100 Urban Land Use Models Hierarchy of Cities 100 Types of Services ? Urban Problems

Question: What is the name of this urban model? Answer: The Concentric Zone Model Return

Question: What is the name of this urban model? Answer: The Multiple Nuclei Model Return

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. Return

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. Return

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 Return

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 Return

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 Return

Question: What is a shock city? Answer: Urban place experiencing infrastructural challenges related to massive and rapid urbanization. Return

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 Return

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 Return

Question: Which major category of services do the most Americans work in? Answer: Consumer Services Return

Question: What is the name of the employment sector that encompasses all service industries? Answer: Tertiary Return

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. Return

Question: The service sector of the economy is subdivided into what three major types? Answer: Consumer, Business, Public Return

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) Return

Question: Almost all world cities can be found on which three continents? Answer: North America, Europe, Asia Return

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 Return

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 Return

Question: Industrial and military cities are an example of which type of city? Answer: Dependent Centers Return

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) Return

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 Return

Question: The illegal act of banks drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which they will refuse to loan money. Answer: Redlining Return

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 Return

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. Return

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. Return

Question: The idea that the number of houses per unit of land diminishes as distance from the center city increases. Answer: Density Gradient Return

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. Return

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 Return

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. Return

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. Return