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| What kind of features do underground cities feature? |
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Definition
| Parking garages, loading docks for deliveries, utility lines, subway transportation systems, underground walkways, and shops. |
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| Name two distinct characteristics of central area of high lands. |
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Definition
-Land is used more intensively of the center then elsewhere in the city.
-Some are excluded from the center due to high cost of space. |
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| What are each station of the John Borchert's model? Also, recall each year associated with it. |
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Definition
1. Sail-Wagon (1790-1830)
2. Iron Horse (1830-1870)
3. Steel-Rail (1870-1920)
4. Auto-Air-Amenity (1920-1970)
5. High Technology (1970-today) |
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| Define festival landscape. |
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Definition
| American/Canadian cities have taken deindustrialization area/rundown areas and converted spaces/buildings into parks, museums, sports parks, etc. (ex. Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Skydome in Toronto, Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. |
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| What are some settlement patterns? |
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Definition
clustered rural settlement-residential and farm structures of multiple households are arranged close together.
dispersed rural settlement-significant distance between multiple households.
circular settlements-circle of homes surrounding a central open space.
linear settlements-follow along a road or river/stream front,coast,etc. |
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| Define PLVI (Peak Land Value Intersection). |
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Definition
The most accessible and costly parcel of land in the Central Business District (CBD) and therefore in the entire urbanized area.
ex. usually located in the most densest portion of the city (downtowns usually) |
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| List the characteristics of the ancient Greek cities. |
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Definition
-one of the most urbanized areas.
-more than 500 cities/towns (islands and mainland).
-connected by trade.
-leading greek city-states (a state made up of an independent city and the territory directly controlled by it) were Sparta & the Athens.
each city included...
1) acropolis: (acro=high point, polis=city) built most impressive structure, usually religious structure.
ex. Parthenon of Athens
2) agora: public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized and traded goods.
3) theaters-for plays, philosophical discourses
-poor sanitation.
-most of city grandeur was built by slaves.
-urbanization diffused to Roman Empire. |
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Term
| What activities are excluded from the CBD? |
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Definition
-high costs prevent manufacturing and a lot of residents from CBD.
-suitable land for manufacturing is often found in suburbs where there is more room for expansion.
-old waterfront areas have been redeveloped as tourist attractions or convention centers with needs for more retail services.
-many residents use to live downtown but in twentieth century many have abandoned downtown living.
-push-pull factors for migration: susburbs offer larger homes with private yards, modern schools and escape from crime, congestion and poverty of the central city. |
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fill in the blank.
Washington DC is an exception as no building is allowed to be higher than the ___________ (no building higher than thirteen stories). |
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| How come more people over the years have migrated to the suburbs? |
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Definition
| -cheaper land costs, customers are living in area, and less traffic. |
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Term
| What is the definition of a city and a town? |
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Definition
city-conglomeration of people + buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
town-clustered settlement w/a CBD but is smaller + less functionally complex than a city |
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Term
| Name an example of a colonial city. |
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Definition
| Mexico with over Aztec's Tenochtitlan, New Delhi (British) over Delhi. |
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Term
| What are two factors that lead to urban development the majority of the time? |
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Definition
1)resource node: towns/cities formed due to access to natural resources.
ex. sacramento, CA due to gold.
2) transportation node: formed due to location as intersection of two or more lines of transportation.
ex. San Francisco, CA (Port) -> canal -> baby -> Pac. Ocean |
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Term
| What are the five urban hearths? |
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Definition
1)Fertile Crescent -> Mesopotamia
2)Nile River Valley
3)Indus River Valley (South Asia)
4)Huang He (Yellow River) & Wei (Yangtze River) Valleys
5)Mesoamerica |
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| How did urbanization diffuse in Mesoamerica? |
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Definition
-steady food supplies & sedentary lifestyle led to growth.
-people migrated diffusing ideas of agriculture & urbanization. |
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| Name the models that explain where different types of people tend to live in an urban area. |
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Definition
1) Concentric Zone Model (Burgess Model)
2) Sector Model (Hoyt Model)
3) Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris & Ullman Model) |
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