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where when did cities first evolve?
in France and not until the Neolithic revolution
how do cities grow in land area?
annexation
annexation
The process of legally adding land to a city
CBD
Central business district
why are skyscrapers only built in the CBD?
Status symbol
what is a megalopolis?
Several metro regions overlap into one huge urban zone
conurbation
two Metro regions merged into one large urban zone
Metro region
City suburbs nearby rural counties
smallest to largest
Metro region, conurbation, CBD, city, magapolis
identify a megalopolis in the US
Washington to Boston corridor
in which model do cities break into sectors due to zoning law
Hoyt model
how do the Burgess model betrayal city
Simple circles
Sprawl
suburb spread out
what model does sprawl develop in?
peripheral model
four urban models in order
1.Burgess 2.Hoyt 3.multiple nucle 4. peripheral aka galactic
what model is edge city’s in
peripheral
why do americans prefer to live in the suburbs
safer, less traffic, less noise
what was white flight
white people flee places they think blacks are moving into
redlining
banks refuse to lend to the poor
blockbusting
real estate agents tell whites that blacks are moving in which causes panic to sell house
black flight
the black middle class joins the whites in the suburbs
central place theory largest to smallest
city town village hamlet
what shape does central place theory use to indentify market area
hexagons
basic industry
the business that brings in the money ex.tourism
non-basic industry
The business that circulates the money ex.publix
range
how far customers are willing to travel
threshold
how many customers are needed to stay in business
why’s are most mega cities in LDCs
rapid population growth, massive rural to urban migration
rank size rule
population of second largest city is ½ the largest ex. us cities
what is central place theory about?
why cities are located where they are and explains the flow of goods and service between a city
primate cities
one city’s population is much larger than any other city ex.london, paris
gentrification
the middle class moved back to the city
what is burgess model about
The city grows out from the CBD in series of rings
what are the order of rings in Burgess matter?
1 city second 2factories 3poor people 4middle class 5farms
what is sector aka hoyt model about
bringing order out of chaos creates separate zones regions
what comes from hoyt model
interstates
what is multiple nucle about
downtown is no longer dominant. The city has more than one center of gravity.
what is peripheral aka galactic about
the dominance of sprawl and edge cities