Chapter 13

Western European public transit is more large-scale than public transit in U.S. cities for what main reason?

European governments subsidize public transit.

Sprawl is the...

development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built-up area

The multiple nuclei theory...

includes nodes such as a port, a university, airport, and a park

Gentrification...

is the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.

The strongest critique of suburbs argued that historically...

low-income people and minorities are unable to live in some areas because of the high cost of the housing, the unfriendliness (or discrimination) of established residents, and fears that property values would decline if minorities were allowed to buy property there

Which characteristic of suburbs do people in the United States find most appealing?

the private land surrounding the house

The most amount of daily trips are made primarily for what activity or purpose?

work

Within cities, the United States underclass is typically found...

clustered in inner-city neighborhoods

Land values are often high in the CBD for what reason?

competition for limited space

Megalopolis refers to what concept?

adjacent, overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Areas