Ch.9 Urban Geography

5 Written Questions

1. highpoint of a city where people build impressive sturctures usually (greek0
2. homes that often result of tear-downs that are large and similar in look
3. development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with diversity of housing and jobs
4. the focal point of a city; basically the "agora" of Roman life
5. the process by which lands that were previously outside of the urban environment become urbanized as people and businesses from the city move to these spaces

5 Matching Questions

1. Sunbelt phenomenon
2. urban sprawl
3. urban realm
4. central business district
5. leadership class

1. a unrestricted growth of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning
2. b The movement of millions of americans from northern and northeastern States to the South and Southwest regions of the USA
3. c the spatial components of the modern metropolis where each realm is a separate economic, social, and political entity that is linked together to form the larger metropolitan framework
4. d urban elite, consisted of a group of decision makers and organizers who controlled the resources, and often the lives of others
5. e the key economic zone of the city; a concentration of business and commerce in the city's downtown

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. a city that is a countrys leading city disproportionally large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling; the largest and most economically influential city
   1. primate city
   2. central city
   3. trade area
   4. city
2. the division of the city into certain regions for certain purposes
   1. gentrification
   2. functional zonation
   3. commercializaton
   4. suburbanization
3. fenced in neighborhoods with controlled access gates for people and automobiles
   1. gated communities
   2. edge cities
   3. Mesoamerica
   4. world city
4. absolute location; spatial character and physical setting
   1. city
   2. suburb
   3. site
   4. zone
5. an outlying, functionally uniform part of an urban area and is often adjacent to the central city
   1. site
   2. suburb
   3. Forum
   4. agora

5 True/False Questions

1. agricultural surplus → a relatively small, egalitarian village where most of the population was involved in agriculture

   True        False

2. rank-size rule → Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas.

   True        False

3. social stratification → a process where individuals buy up and rehabilitate the houses, raising the housing value in the neighborhood and changing the neighborhood itself

   True        False

4. situation → absolute location; spatial character and physical setting

   True        False

5. Nile River Valley → the third hearth of urbanization that developed in 2200bc; no palaces or monuments and much infrastructure

   True        False