unit 6 study

Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?

Central place theory

Which of the following is useful for describing a settlement node whose primary function is to provide support for the population in its hinterland?

Christaller's model of central place

Which of the following groups would most likely engage in the gentrification of an older residential neighborhood?

Double-income households without children

With regard to environmental sustainability, which of the following explains an advantage of urban light-rail networks in Europe and East Asia compared to most light-rail systems in United States cities?

Light-rail is integrated with fast commuter railroad networks and subways and extends out to multiple suburbs.

Which of the following best explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?

Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements.

In the development of urban land, which of the following is typically built on the most accessible sites?

Retail complexes

Based on a comparison of the zones in the model shown, which of the following best explains how the model is limited in its representation of present-day urban land-use patterns?

The model does not account for the prices of agricultural land on the urban periphery, where land prices continue to decline.

In the new global economy, an increasing proportion of influential financial decisions are being made in

major corporate centers such as New York, London, and Tokyo