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| List the 2 dimensions of urbanization: |
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1- increasing # of people in cities
2- increasing % of people in cities |
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| What percentage of the population in MDCs is urban? |
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| MDCs have a high percentage of urban residents due largely to this historical event. |
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| What percentage of the population in LDCs is urban? |
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| Why has urbanization in MDCs largely ended? |
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| Pretty much anyone who wants to live in a city is already there. |
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| This geographer agrued that urban and rural dwellers follow a different pattern of life. |
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| List the 3 characteristics that define an urban area |
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1- large size
2- high population density
3- socially heterogeneous groups |
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| Historical cities are easy to define because they were __________. |
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| To determine where a city ends, boundaries can be defined in these 3 ways. |
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1- Legal boundary
2- Urbanized area
3- Metropolitan Statistical Area |
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| An Metropolitan Statistical Area is a(n) _______________ with a population of at least ________. |
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| List the 3 models of urban structure (excluding peripheral) |
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1- Concentric Zone
2- Sector
3- Multiple Nuclei |
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| The innermost zone for all the urban structure models is the ___. |
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| In the concentric zone model, this social class would be found in the Zone of Transition. |
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| Low-income residents of European urban areas tend to live here. |
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| Outskirts of the city, suburbs |
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| In European cities, the wealthy tend to live here. |
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| In the center, close to the CBD |
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| Why do many LDC cities show similar patterns to European cities? |
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| In Brazil, large numbers of low-income people are being relocated in preparation for the World Cup and the Olympics. What settlements do these people live in? |
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| squatter settlements, (Not in the notes, but we talked about these in class!) |
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| List the 2 criticisms of urban renewal: |
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1- destroys social cohesion of neighborhoods
2- reduces supply of low-income housing |
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| Mr. Oswald's favorite hockey team |
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| Low-income residents must pay 30% of their income to live in this type of housing. |
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| Many cities of this country display the "Swiss cheese" effect. |
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| How are governments in the U.K. fighting sprawl? |
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| List the 3 negatives of sprawl: |
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1- loss of farmland
2- increased taxes to build roads, provide electricity
3- waste of energy due to low density |
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| Suburbs are segregated in these 2 ways: |
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1- residents physically separated from commercial/manufacturing areas
2- housing is built for people in a single social class |
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| What type of public transportation first spurred growth of suburbs? |
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| List 3 positives of public transportation: |
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you could have:
1- helps with reducing rush hour
2- more energy efficient
3- cheaper
4- saves space |
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| list 3 negatives with public transportation: |
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You could have:
1- some can't afford it
2- less flexibility
3- less accessible in suburbs
4- fewer users lead to higher costs, which leads to fewer users, which leads to.. |
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| List 3 positives of motor vehicles: |
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you could have:
1- more flexibility
2- more privacy
3- safer from crime
4- better for those who can't access public transit |
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| List 3 negatives of motor vehicles: |
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you could have:
1- contributes to rush hour
2- takes up too much space
3- wastes energy
4- expensive for the city and government due to congestion |
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| Why is public transit more used in some other countries? |
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| Fewer people have cars, more emphasized by government |
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| What is Maryland doing to deal with sprawl? |
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| Inner-city Camden displays many statistics similar to those of ___. |
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| A ring of land maintained as parks, farmland, and other types of open space to limit sprawl |
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| a model of N. American urban areas that consists of an inner city surrounded by suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road |
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| Legally adding land to a U.S. city is known as |
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| This social group suffers from many economic and social problems, and is increasingly unable to compete for jobs due to lack of education and skill. |
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| process of converting an urban neighborhood from mostly low-income to mostly middle-class. |
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| An illegal practice in which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money within the boundaries |
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| In this model, social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes. |
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| Model in which social groups are arranged in wedges radiating out from the CBD |
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| change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery |
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| large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area |
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| A micropolitan statistical area has between _____ and _____ inhabitants. |
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| Law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community |
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