Chapter 11 Urban Systems and Urban Structures

Squatter settlements

________ are found at the urban periphery and in disamenity zones.

Chicago

________ emerged as hubs of regional railroads that collected and distributed resources from the vast interior of the continent.

Arrangement

________ that emerges is a set of concentric circles divided according to family status.

mass transit

The density and design of the newer cities have been influenced primarily or exclusively by the automobile and motor truck, not by ________ and railroads.

Social status

________ of an individual or a family is determined by income, education, occupation, and home value.

pattern of interdependent

A(n) ________ small, medium, and larger towns that could together provide the goods and services needed by dispersed rural populations.

Ethnicity

________ is a more important factor in residential location than social or family status.

II

Highway systems were extended outward after World War ________.

London

________ and New York were the worlds two largest cities in 1950.

political boundaries

A continuously built- up landscape defined by building and population densities, with no reference to ________.

Nonmarket controls

_____________ on land use are designed to minimize incompatibilities

Small cities

________ provide a range of goods and services that suffice for most everyday needs.

totality of people

The ________ and urban functions constitute distinctive cultural landscapes.

urban settlements

All ________ exist for the efficient performance of functions required by the society that creates them.

Social status divisions

________ are often perpetuated by political boundaries between separate municipalities or school districts nowadays.

Central places

________ are nodes for the distribution of economic goods and services to surrounding non urban populations.

Redistribution of population

________ caused by suburbanization resulted in both spatial and political segregation of social groups.

Western European cities

________ are unique historically and culturally share certain common features.

metropolitan areas

Beginning of the size scale are complex multifunctional ________ or megacities.

Urban structure

________ is a product not just of the time when a city was founded, or who the founders were, but also of the role it plays in its own cultural setting.

Urban centers

________ are functionally connected to other cities and to rural areas.

Large urban centers

________ are command and control points for the global economy.

Urban settlements

________ come in different sizes, shapes, and types.