Chapter 11 Urban Systems and Urban Structures

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Squatter settlements
________ are found at the urban periphery and in disamenity zones.
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Chicago
________ emerged as hubs of regional railroads that collected and distributed resources from the vast interior of the continent.
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Arrangement
________ that emerges is a set of concentric circles divided according to family status.
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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.
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Social status
________ of an individual or a family is determined by income, education, occupation, and home value.
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pattern of interdependent
A(n) ________ small, medium, and larger towns that could together provide the goods and services needed by dispersed rural populations.
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Ethnicity
________ is a more important factor in residential location than social or family status.
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II
Highway systems were extended outward after World War ________.
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London
________ and New York were the worlds two largest cities in 1950.
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political boundaries
A continuously built- up landscape defined by building and population densities, with no reference to ________.
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Nonmarket controls
_____________ on land use are designed to minimize incompatibilities
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Small cities
________ provide a range of goods and services that suffice for most everyday needs.
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totality of people
The ________ and urban functions constitute distinctive cultural landscapes.
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urban settlements
All ________ exist for the efficient performance of functions required by the society that creates them.
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Social status divisions
________ are often perpetuated by political boundaries between separate municipalities or school districts nowadays.
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Central places
________ are nodes for the distribution of economic goods and services to surrounding non urban populations.
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Redistribution of population
________ caused by suburbanization resulted in both spatial and political segregation of social groups.
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Western European cities
________ are unique historically and culturally share certain common features.
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metropolitan areas
Beginning of the size scale are complex multifunctional ________ or megacities.
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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.
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Urban centers
________ are functionally connected to other cities and to rural areas.
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Large urban centers
________ are command and control points for the global economy.
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Urban settlements
________ come in different sizes, shapes, and types.
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