Chapter 12: The City and the Urban Form

Accessibility

________ and mobility help illustrate the valuable role of urban transportation.

Segregation

________ can also be based on religion.

Suburbanization

________ was spread rapidly throughout the twentieth century, it was manly prevalent where land was readily available, planning were weak, populations were wealthy and could afford large homes, and levels of physical mobility were high.

Poverty

________ is also closely related to criminal activity, with poor people regularly overrepresented as both perpetrators and victims.

spatial relationship

The value of housing is affected by its ________ with other urban land uses, and location where it's located.

Mobility

________ is closely related to economic circumstances, with low- income earners more dependent on public transit systems and generally less able to move from place to place than high- income earners.

distribution of population densities

The ________ tends to be remarkably consistent for all urban areas, bearing little relation to the internal structure.

Gentrification

________ often contributes to greater social polarization, which can lead to social conflict as some inner- city residents actively resist ________.

Urban sprawl

________ is often taken to imply not just residential development but also the supporting commercial landscape, with the strip mall and retail power centre as the leading components.

Suburban growth

________ was in response to changes taking taking place inside the city, including the establishment of factories and rising population densities.

Sprawl

________ can lead to the formation of conurbations that are perhaps better understood as city regions.

Urban

________ planning provides the broad outlines, or the template of the city that is moulded into a particular and ever- changing urban landscape by the actions of those who work, live, and interact within the city.

Accessibility

________ is one of the factor considered when businesses and other land users make location decisions that affect the pattern of urban land use.

Mobility

________ has increased with technological improvements in transportation and with rising incomes, which has meant that physical distance has become less of a constraining factor.

Poverty

________ and health problems also go hand in hand as inadequate housing or homelessness increases the risk of hypothermia during cold periods and of tuberculosis, bronchitis, and skin infections.

Gentrification

________ for the poor, especially renters, represents a threat because rising house prices and property taxes may result in their displacement.

specific attributes like; lot size, bedroom

bathroom attachment, number of levels, amount of living space, and state of repair both outside and inside