Chapter 11 Geo

Displacement of low-income, frequently minority families by middle and high income professionals is one negative side effect of _________

gentrification

The social status of an individual or a family is determined by

income education occupation home value

Rapid urbanization in Western Europe and the United States was spurred by ______

industrialization

Basic Sector

made up of the activities of people that bring in money from outside the community

Older cities commonly have a densely built-up core forming the center for businesses. This pattern arose during a time when the dominant form of transport in those cities was ___________

mass-transit

Suburban areas can expand to the point where multiple metropolitan areas coalesce, forming a continuous built-up region, often called a

megalopolis

A(n) _______ is a large scale functional entity discontinuously built up but operating as an integrated economic whole.

metropolitan area

The ________ effect describes the way that every new basic sector job creates additional nonbasic jobs.

multiplier

The economic base of an area can be divided into ______ and ________ sectors

nonbasic basic

What type of urban land use pattern is shown?

peripheral

A __________ city is one that is far more than twice the size of the second-ranked city

primate

In many developing countries, the population is disproportionately concentrated in a single _______ city, and there are very few small- or medium-size cities.

primate

A(n) _________, while smaller than a city, still has a nuclear business concentration

town

_______________ is a ranking of cities based on their size and functional complexity

urban hierarchy

The fastest growth in large cities is mostly taking place in the ________US

western

Nonbasic sector

workers produce goods or services for residents of the city itself. Includes: operation of stores, offices, city government, local transit, and school system

The __________ model proposes that high-rent residential areas expand outward from the city center along major transportation routes.

Sector

What factors contributed to the rise of cities in the ancient world

Social Organization and power An agricultural surplus Development of a more complex economy

What is believed to be a major factor in the recent trend of urban renewal in the urban core of many cities?

The rise of digital communications technology

The fastest growing cities and the fastest growing urban populations are found in the ____________ world

developing

The decreased influence a city has on area farther away from it is an example of the concept of ___________

distance decay

According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a region has a population of 8 million, what would the population of the fifth-largest city in this region be?

1.8 million

The recent trend of the decline of the city center as people move outward into suburbs can be explained by

1. widespread home ownership 2. New roads and transportation flexibility 3. Shorter workweeks

What are the three main functions of cities?

1) Providing general services for surrounding area 2) Transport services 3) Special functions for locations outside the surrounding area

Which three features are common to many cities in developing countries?

1. Inadequate facilities for large populations 2. Colonial Legacy 3. Squatter settlements

The goals of communist governments, when planning cities, were to __________

1. limit city size and avoid sprawl 2. segregate land uses 3. create neighborhood equality and self-sufficiency

It is expected that _______ of the world population will be urban by 2050, with most of that urban growth occurring in developing countries.

70%

MATCH

A-residential B-commercial C-Agricultural D-Intensive residential

Which of the following are examples of basic sector workers?

A. Car assembly B. Credit card call center employees C. Dock workers

Which of these are reasons for the creation of a planned city?

A. Encourage more-uniform national development B. House new industrial centers C. Draw people away from overgrown metropolises

Why does the migration of people from the central city to the suburbs lead to a decline of the central city.

A. Loss of tax revenue to the suburbs B. Loss of business to the suburbs C. Concentration of poor residents in the central city

Which of the following are characteristics of Western European cities ?

A. Most residents live in apartments B. Compact and pedestrian-friendly C. Relatively low skyline

______ has served an important element of basic sector activity for most cities, bringing in money from other places through export of goods

Manufacturing

According to Walter Christalle's central place theory ____________

A. There will be more small towns than there will be big towns B. The sphere of influence of a settlement is proportional to its size C. Larger towns will be spaced farther apart from one another than smaller towns

Which of these patterns most closely illustrates the pattern of population associated with family status?

B

Match names for squatter settlement with the countries they are associated with

Favela-->Brazil Kampung---> Indonesia Barrio--> Mexico Katchiabadi-->Pakistan

Which of these are examples of nonbasic sector employment?

Firefighter Car wash operator Restaurant owner

Which groups of people are fueling the growth in inner0city population?

New Immigrants Young professionals Empty nesters

What are the two dominant world cities?

New York London

________ cities, such as Brasilia in Brazil, are those that are conceived of and then built on previously undeveloped land

Planned

______areas are nucleated, non-agriculturalists settlements

Urban

The __________ of an urban areas economic structure is made up of the activities of people that bring in money from outside the community.

basic sector

The _________ is the part of the urban area contained within the suburban fringe

central city

Many cities in developing countries are the products of ___________, established as ports or outposts of administration, built by Europeans on a Western model.

colonialism

The Ernest Burgess ______ depicts five rings of different land use radiating out from the central business district

concentric zone model

What role is depicted here in terms of urban structure for Guanajuato, Mexico?

religious center

The term ________ refers to the absolute location of a settlement. The term ________ places a settlement in relation to the physical and cultural characteristics of the surrounding areas.

site, situation

Urban sprawl, including residential areas, industrial parks, and shopping centers, is a consequence of

sub-urbanization

A _____ is a functionally specialized, subsidiary segment of a large urban complex that can be residential, industrial, or commercial in nature.

suburb

_____ is the trend of people moving away from the urban core, where home prices are lower

suburbanization

The tendency for city residents to segregate themselves into groups on the basis of things such as income and stage in life fostered by

the size and availability of housing