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What are the site characteristics of New York City?
Deep-water harbor.
What are the site characteristics of European cities?
near water.
What is an edge city?
a large amount of land devoted to offices and retail outside of the city. no government, no one lives there.
What is range?
the longest distance a person is willing to go to experience something.
How does range apply to expensive (higher-order) and cheap (lower-order) goods?
it is larger for higher order and lower for lower order.
What kind of migration has happened in the world's megacities in recent years?
internal migration (rural to urban).
What are the primary characteristics of world cities?
1. headquarters of a multinational corporation
2. media hub
3. financially/politically connected to the world (commodity/stock exchange).
The fashion weeks in Paris, Milan, and New York City are connected with which term from this unit?
world cities.
Seoul is the largest city in South Korea, with a 2018 population of approximately 10 million. Busan is the second largest city in South Korea, with a 2018 population of approximately 3.5 million. What kind of city is Seoul?
primate city.
In less-developed countries where do the low income migrants establish communities such as squatter settlements?
outskirts of the city.
What is a mixed use space?
a large building with shops and restaurants on the bottom and housing on top.
What kind of city during which time period does the Concentric Zone Model represent?
Anglo-American city in US + Canada in 1920.
In what way is the Latin American City Model reversed from the Anglo-American city models?
rich people live in center of the city in Latin America.
What is the threshold in Central Place Theory?
minimum amount of people needed to support a business.
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 10 million, the population of the next largest city would be what?
5 million.
Why did the rise of suburban development happen in the 1950s?
houses were cheap and affordable, government gave soldiers loans, people did not want to work in factories, people wanted space, safety, and wished to start a family; American dream. formation of middle class.
Which theory in this unit explains why New York City has more specialized stores than the other urban areas in New York State?
Central Place Theory.
Why would a country such as Brazil, Burma (Myanmar), Kazakhstan, and Nigeria construct a new capital city in a different location from the old capital city?
1. a fresh start from an old, crowded, and dirty city.
2. better infrastructure
3. separate capital from other states to prevent abuse of power.
Why do medieval cities have circular settlement pattern?
cities were surrounded by wall and moat. streets were made small and maze-like to confuse invaders.
What was the Garden City movement?
during Victorian era (1837-1901), rich people moving to outskirts of city + deciding to make it beautiful; created the first suburbs.
The Garden City movement was the beginning of which new idea in city development?
suburbs.
What is an exburb?
country estates outside the city for rich people. ex. The Hamptons.
How many people does a metropolitan area need to be considered a megacity?
10 million.
Tokyo has 28 million people. What kind of city is it?
metacity.
What are the characteristics of periphery countries?
1. government steals from people.
2. war.
3. no resources.
What are the characteristics of semi-periphery countries?
1. internal issues.
2. bad government.
3. have resources, control in global economy.
What are the characteristics of core countries?
have all the money and power.
What are the characteristics of boomburbs?
city with 100,000 people since 1970; central place of a region. ex. Hialeah.
Long lots are an example of what kind of urban settlement pattern?
linear.
La Defense in Paris, France is an example of what?
edge city.
Why did antigrowth movements start?
after many years of suburban growth, people were concerned developers would destroy all nature and farmland.
What are the characteristics of Levittowns?
suburbs built after WWII.
1. small, affordable homes.
2. safe neighborhoods.
3. look exactly the same.
4. built in 18 days.
Give 2 examples of historical segregation by law.
1. Jim Crow laws in American South.
2. Apartheid (South Africa, 1990).
What is redlining?
banks denying minorities from applying for a house loan based on whether the house they were interested in buying was in a white neighborhood. prohibited streets were lined in red on maps.
Name 2 examples of a gateway city.
Miami, NYC.
Ethnic enclaves are caused by what term from this unit?
De Facto segregation.
What is another name for a forward capital?
planned capital.
Give 4 examples of forward capitals.
1. Brasilia, Brazil (1960).
2. Abuja, Nigeria (1980).
3. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (1997).
4. Naypidau, Burma (2006).
