Cities and Urban Land Use
Unit 7
AP Exam Review
• Which of the following would be considered
a primate city?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Berlin, Germany
New York City, US
Beijing, China
Paris, France
Sao Paulo, Brazil
2
• Which of the following best describes the
urban hierarchy of settlements?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Town, hamlet, village, metropolis, megalopolis
Village, town, hamlet, metropolis, megalopolis
Megalopolis, metropolis, village, town, hamlet
Hamlet, town, city, metropolis, megalopolis
Hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis
3
• The UK has established greenbelts around
certain cities to prevent what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Major traffic tie-ups
Urban sprawl
The spread of poverty
Unbearable pollution
Race relations from erupting into riots
4
• According to Ullman and Harris’s multiple
nuclei model, what develops at the outskirts
of core cities?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Airports
Nucleated cities
Edge cities
World cities
First-ring suburbs
5
• What city were the concentric zone model
and sector model based on when they were
developed in the early 20th century?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Chicago
London
NYC
Philadelphia
Boston
6
• What do most cities in the developing world
have in common?
a) Urban areas are ringed by shanty towns
b) The CBD suffers from a lack of resources
c) Wealthy live in a commuter zone on the edge of
the city
d) Industry is located next to the CBD
e) None of the above
7
• The Pentagon in Washington DC is a good
example of a(n)
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Festival landscape
Symbolic landscape
Military landscape
Urban landscape
Postmodern landscape
8
• What one characteristic links megacities?
a) Each city has an efficient form of mass
transportation
b) Each city has a population of more than 10 million
people
c) Each city has a world-class airport with connections
to each continent
d) Each city possesses financial wealth greater than its
GDP
e) Each city follows a model that is focused around
the CBD
9
• Medieval cities in Europe usually had what
characteristic in common?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Moats
Protective walls
All roads leading to them
Well-developed urban hydrology plans
Sections devoted to specific social classes
10
• Latin American cities have what common
characteristic in the model developed by Dr.
Larry Ford?
a) A spine of high-class housing extending from
the city center
b) Dominance of the suburbs in urban growth
c) Favelas in the interior of the CBD
d) 3 distinct CBDs
e) Transportation systems that ring the city and do
not connect to the CBD
11
• Range and threshold are important to
commercial establishments b/c
a) W/o a range, there are not enough customers to
support the establishment
b) W/o a threshold, the distance is too far for people
to go to partake in the goods offered
c) Range determines the max distance that ppl are
willing to travel, while the threshold is the min.
number of customers needed for the business to
survive
d) The greater the range, the higher the cost of the
item
12
• A business such as high-end department
store with a high threshold would most likely
be located where in the urban framework?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
CBD
First-ring suburb
Third-ring suburb
Near a major interstate exit
Close to the airport
13
• Homer Hoyt’s sector model is based on what
fundamental principle?
a) Development is based on the location of
amenities
b) Development is structured around the CBD
c) Development is based around enterprises such
as airports
d) Development is centered around transportation
routes
e) Development is independent of the CBD
14
• Which is the illegal process by which real
estate agents encourage the sale of homes
b/c people of certain races have moved into
the neighborhood?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Redlining
Ghettoization
Segregation
White flight
Blockbusting
15
• What is the most noticeable geographic trend
in the last 30 years w/ respect to the world’s
20 most populated cities?
a) Most are now located in MDCs
b) A much larger percentage of the cities are now
located in Europe
c) Most are now located in LDCs
d) Most are now located in Africa
e) Cities have not change, only grown in
population
16
• The area in the urban setting with the highest
land value, located within the CBD is called
what?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Planned community
High lateral investment zone
Peak land value intersection
3rd – ring suburb
Tertiary land value
17
• Which world-class city is the best example of
an entrepot?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Shanghai
Dubai
Sao Paulo
Madrid
Singapore