AP Human Geography: Chapter 9: Urban Geography – Flashcards
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The layout of a city, the physical form and structure, is referred to as:
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urban morphology
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What country is not as urbanized as the US, Japan, or Australia?
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China
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What is not among the components which enabled the formation of the first cities?
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invention of the wheel
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Ancient towns and cities owed much of their success and growth to certain site advantages. What is not one of these advantages?
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good supplies of coal and iron
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In which region did urbanization develop first?
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Mesopotamia
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Which feature typical of ancient urbanization was not present in the Nile River Valley?
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defensive walls
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Urban places in the ancient world were:
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exceptions in an overwhelmingly rural society
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Athens may have been the largest city in the world at the time of its existence, with a population estimated at:
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250,000
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The relative location of a city refers to its:
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situation
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What is not related to urbanization processes of the second urban revolution?
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cities as theocratic centers
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In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city, town, or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system. (i.e.) If the largest city is 4 million, the second will be 2 million 1/2, the third will be 1/3 and so on). This is known as:
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rank-size rule
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A hinterland reveals the ______ of each statement.
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economic reach
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Paris and Mexico City are many times larger than the second-ranked city in their respective countries. Their disproportionate size illustrates:
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the concept of the primate city
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The response of the urban system of the American South and Southwest to the influx of migrants over the past three decades conforms with predictions of central place theory. This is called the _____ phenomenon.
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Sunbelt
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In Burgess' concentric zone model, the zone transition became:
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deteriorated with more CBD encroachment
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Peter Muller's analysis of suburbanization indicated that suburbs were:
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evolving into a self sufficient urban entity with its own economic and cutural components
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The core of a city is called the:
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central business district (CBD)
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What term came into use to describe the spatial components of the metropolis of the late twentieth century?
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urban realms
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Mexico City and Sao Paolo are examples of:
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mega cities
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In Latin America, which of the following does not accurately describe the typical CBD?
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an area of out-migration to suburbs
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A structural element of many Latin American cities, the disamenity sector, is illustrated by the:
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barrios or favelas
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Which of the following is both the least urbanized and the most rapidly urbanizing realm of the world?
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Africa, south of the Sahara
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Comparing Luanda, Angola to a suburb of Tokyo, one is struck by the fact that the urban morphology reflects the fact that Angola lacks a _______ class.
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middle
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The huge influx of the population from rural to urban areas in peripheral or semi-peripheral areas find housing in:
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shantytowns
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If cities in the poorer parts of the world share a common characteristic, it may result from:
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an absence of enforced zoning regulations
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Segregation in the US was reinforced by the financial practice known as:
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redlining
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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 the neighborhoods is called:
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gentrification
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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:
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McMansion
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Marxist geographer David Harvey is one of the strongest critics of _______, the privatization of public space and loss of "character" of neighborhoods.
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new urbanism
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Gated communities have _______ as their chief objective.
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safety
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Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect migrants from:
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former colonies
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New York 's Time Square and Berlin's Potzdammer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into:
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spaces of consumption
