Unit Seven: Cities and Urban Land Use Chapter 13 Urban Patterns P. 458
Key Issue 1: Why do Services Cluster Downtown?
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2. Describe the 3 types of services found in a CBD
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2a. Briefly explain why certain activities are excluded or hard to find in in then CBD :
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2b. Explain the 3D nature of a CBD _______________________________________________________
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3. Define food desert & why are they typically found in lower income areas of a CBD?______________
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Key Issue 2: Where are People Distributed Within Urban Areas? (p 466)
4. Describe E.W. Burgess’s concentric zone model:__________________________________________
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5. Describe Homer Hoyt’s sector model:___________________________________________________
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6. Describe Harris and Ullman’s multiple nuclei model:_______________________________________
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7. Define census tracts & social area analysis
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7a. How do these models help geographers explain where different types of people live in a city?
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8. Identify three differences between the layout of U.S. cities and European cities:
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9. What is a squatter settlement and where are they located and why do they develop?___________
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9a. Describe Larry Ford & Ernest Griffin’s Latin American model (fig,. 13-18)______________________
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10. List three characteristics of pre-colonial cities in LDCs:
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16. Point out three ways these cities changed once Europeans took over:
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17. Point out three changes these cities have undergone since their independence:
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Key Issue 3: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding? P. 476
18. Describe Harris’s peripheral model:
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18a. What is an urban area?
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19. What is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA):
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20. What is a consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA)?
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20a. Define & give an example (NOT from the book) of a megalopolis:___________________________
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21. What is annexation and how has the attitude toward it changed in recent times?
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21a. What is the density gradient and how is it used to study urban areas?
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21b. Define Sprawl& how does it characterize suburbs?_______________________________________
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21c. What is smart growth and give an example of where it is being used?________________________
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22. Discuss the two ways the modern residential suburb is segregated:
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22a. Define edge city ___________________________________________________________________
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23. Discuss how the following have contributed to the growth of suburbs:
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23a. Point out two differences between public transportation in the U.S. and in Europe:
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23b. Why is public transportation a mixed blessing?
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Key Issue 4: Why Do Cities Face Challenges? 490
1. Give three reasons why many central cities have witnessed population decline since 1950?
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9. What is “local government fragmentation” and what problems are caused by it?
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4. Why is the rapid growth of cities in LDCs surprising?________________________________________
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5. List and explain the three characteristics Louis Wirth used to define a city:
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6. What is a criticism of Wirth’s distinctions for MDCs today?__________________________________
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7. List and explain three physical definitions of urban settlements:
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KEY ISSUE 4: WHY DO CITIES FACE CHALLENGES? P. 490
1. Explain how the following add to the deterioration of cities:
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2. Identify the following:
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3. Explain three problems faced by low income inner city residents:
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4. Our text states “Inner-city residents are trapped as permanent underclass because they live in a
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5. Describe the economic challenges of inner cities :
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