5 Written Questions

1. urban area that isn't suburban; the older or original city with suburbs around it
2. transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to tourists and residents alike
3. unplanned slum development on margins of cities; crude dwellings made out of scrap garbage
4. areas of a city where main purpose is to encourage people to consume goods and services; driven by media
5. internal physical attributes of a place; absolute location; spatial character and setting

5 Matching Questions

1. suburb
2. McGee model
3. rank-size rule
4. zoning laws
5. blockbusting

1. a subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city; some have commercial districts and shopping malls
2. b model of land-use patterns among the medium sized cities of SE Asia
3. c idea that population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in hierarchy
4. d rapid change in racial comp of residential blocks in US cities when real estate agents stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods
5. e legal restrictions of land use that determine what types of building and economic activities that are allowed to take place in certain zones (residential/retail/industrial)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. movement of upper and middle-class people form urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution and bad social conditions
   1. gentrification
   2. suburbanization
   3. situation
   4. commercialization
2. group of decision makers and organizers who helped bring about the creation of cities
   1. leadership class
   2. Acropolis
   3. zoning laws
   4. Mesoamerica
3. generalization of the large, late twentieth century city; widely dispersed, suburban downtowns, shrunken central realm focused on CBD
   1. urban realm
   2. urban
   3. trade area
   4. urban sprawl
4. movement of millions of Americans from N and NE states to S a SW regions of US
   1. suburbanization
   2. urban realm
   3. McGee model
   4. Sunbelt phenomenon
5. countries largest city; cultural center and possibly the capital
   1. city
   2. world city
   3. primate city
   4. central city

5 True/False Questions

1. world city → dominant cities in the role of a global political economy; not the largest city, but most controlled

   True        False

2. trade area → region adjacent next to every city w/i which its influence is dominant

   True        False

3. concentric zone model → structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center

   True        False

4. central business district → downtown hearth of a central city, high land values, concentration of buildings and commerce; skyscrapers

   True        False

5. agricultural village → a surplus of the goods an agricultral grower has and that is sold for profit.

   True        False