URB - Urbanization and Services Review Lesson
Urbanization and Services Review Lesson
Review the lesson material below. Use the following study guide, along with your key terms list, to prepare for the module test.
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- Urban hearths:
- Mesopotamia (Tigeris and Euphrates)
- Indus Valley
- Huang He Valley
- Nile Valley
- Mexico and Peru
- Percentages urban in:
- MDCs
- LDCs
- Where are the most?
- Where is the most growth?
- Squatter settlements (Favela, periferico, etc)
- Location
- Causes
- Characteristics and problems
- Economic Sectors
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- Informal
- Metropolitan Statistical area vs micropolitan statistical area
- Census tracks
- Rural settlement styles
- Clustered vs dispersed
- Understand the shape (start from the center) and characteristics of each US urban model (know the names if they are listed):
- Burgess' Concentric Model
- Hoyt's Sector Model
- Multiple Nuclei Model
- Peripheral Model (edge cities)
- Urban Realms Model
- Characteristics of people living in:
- CBD (downtown business district)
- Slums/Tenements
- Lower-class housing
- Middle-class housing
- Suburbs
- Understand the shape (start from the center) and characteristics of each international model
- Latin American Model
- Southeast Asian City Model
- Sub-Saharan African City Model
- City Types:
- Preindustrial
- Feudal (Medieval) Cities
- Colonial Cities
- European influence on cities in:
- Anglo-America (clustered rural settlements on long-lots)
- Latin America (CBD and spine with religious center)
- Industrial Cities
- Postindustrial Cities
- Postmodernism
- Site vs. situation
- Urban sizes:
- Cities
- Metropolis
- Megalopolis (Bosnywash)
- Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory
- CBD (central place) and Hinterlands
- Threshold
- Range
- Spatial Competition
- Functions / Services
- Urban hierarchy and urban system
- Rank-size rule
- Primate city
- What is an entrepot? What is an example?
- World cities vs. megacities
- Locations
- Characteristics
- Multinational corporations
- Forward capital
- Samuel Borchert's Model of Urban Evolution (all five stages and example cities)
- Services
- Consumer
- Business
- Public
- Basic vs non-basic industries (multiplier effect)
- Bid-rent theory
- Density gradient
- Deterioration:
- Filtering
- Redlining
- Restrictive covenants
- Public housing
- Spatial segregation / uneven development
- Underclass
- Economic factors
- Cultural factors
- Gentrification vs. urban renewal
- Agglomeration
- Neo-Urban (American and European)
- Urban sprawl
- Greenbelts
- Zoning ordinances / Restrictive covenants
- Public transportation
- Planned cities (festival settings)
- What is the CBD? What is suburbanization?
- How are cities vs. suburbs segregated?
- Causes of counter-urbanization / suburbanization:
- What is a big box store?
- Highways
- Telecommunications and e-commerce
- Bid-rent in outer areas
- Greenhouse effect/ Global warming / urban heat island
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