AP urban review

According to the sector model, the best housing is located in

A corridor from downtown to the edge of the city

Which is both the least urbanized and the most rapidly urbanizing area of the world?

Africa south of the Sahara

The core of most cities is called the

Central business district (CBD)

In US cities, the underclass is

Clustered in inner- city neighborhoods

In burgesses concentric zone model, the zone of transportation became

Deteriorated with more CBD encroachment

Public transit is more extensive in Western European cities primarily because

European governments subsidize public transit

In the urban realms model developed by Peter Muller, suburbanization is believed to have created suburbs that are

Evolving into self-sufficient entities with its own economic and cultural components.

Poor rural to urban migrants who settle in Latin America cities are most likely to have residences or homes

In squatter settlements on the urban periphery

Which of the following describes a primate city?

It is disproportionately large in relation to the next largest cities in that country

All of the following are associated with suburban sprawl EXCEPT

Limited communications access and few utility services

Which is a correct statement about the major cities of the world?

Most are located on rivers or sea coasts

After 1970, new suburban downtowns (edge cities) were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles, with their leading concentrations

Near key freeway intersections

The important element of urbanization is an increase in the

Number of people, percentage of people & land area occupied by urban settlements

The typical medieval European settlements were characterized by the

Placement of buildings around a central market square

People are attracted to suburbs in part because suburbs are characterized by

Private land surrounding the house

Bid- rent explains why

Real estate is so expensive in the Central City

The huge influx of population from rural to urban areas in peripheral or semi-peripheral areas of the world find housing in

Shantytowns, barrios, or favelas

New Yorks time square and Berlin's Potzdammer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into

Spaces of consumption

Which model can be argued to having 3 central business districts?

Sub- saharan africa city mode

In the peripheral model, suburban areas surrounding the central city are connected by

a beltway

Which of the following is an example ofa basic industry

a manufacturing plant

When adjacent large cities to overlap, this large urbanized area is referred to as

a megalopolis

The parthenon of athens is a structure typical of ancient greek cities. It is an

acropolis

The process of legally adding land area to a city in the US is

annexation

A process by which real estate agents convince white owners to sell their houses is

blockbusting

Which is not related to urbanization processes of the second urban revolution?

cities as theocratic centers

All of the following are common components of New Urbanism EXCEPT

decrease open space

Which was not one of the five original urban hearth regions?

france

In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called

gentrification

Ancient towns and cities owed much of their success and growth to certain site advantages. Which was not one of these advantages?

good supplies of coal and iron

British cities are often surrounded by open space known as

greenbelts

Which model of urban structure depicts a commercial spine bordered by an elite residential sector extending outward from the central business district?

latin america city

Historically, the growth of North American suburbs was most constrained by

limited transportation

Which is considered one of the most influential world cities?

london

8. The wide boulevards in grid patterns built in less developed countries were most likely

made during the colonial period

The core area suburbs are experiencing a process of the tearing down of existing suburban homes and the building of very large, standardized looking homes known as

mcmansions

Lagos and Sao Paolo are examples of

megacities

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the

old colonial port zone

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is

range

The largest city is 4 million, second is 2 million, the third will be ⅓, and so on

rank size rule

Racial segregation in the US was reinforced by the financial practice known as

redlining

What do gated communities have as their chief objective

safety

All of the following were part of the emergence of the first cities except

separation of the ruling system and the religious system

The relative location of a city refers to its

situation

What structures dominated the urban landscape of the ancient mesopotamian cities, as well as indigneous cities in asia and latin america?

temples

The manufacturing city first emerged in

the british midlands

What does a hinterland reveal of each settlement?

the economic reach

The idea that the potential use of a service is directly related to the population and inversely related to distance is called

the gravity model

. In walter christallers central place theory, the central place is at the core of a hexagon shaped

trade area

Rome created a huge urban system. The integration of cities in the roman empire was greatly facilitated by a

transportation system

Which of the following countries is the most urbanized?

united kingdom

Which of the following refers to the size and functional complexity of cities?

urban heirarchy

The layout of a city, the physical form and structure, is referred to as

urban morphology