5 Written Questions

1. City that keeps their traditions, and not modified by outside forces.
2. a subfield of geography the focuses especially on urban places, their chraracteristics, processes of genesis and growth, their systems relative location, and interrelationshieps
3. A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
4. A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions.
5. clusters of large buildings away from the central business district

5 Matching Questions

1. Blockbusting
2. Functional specialization
3. Gated communities
4. Situation
5. Centrality

1. a production of particular goods or services as a dominant activity in a particular location
2. b The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract produce and consumers to its facilities; a city's "reach" into the surrounding region
3. c Restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests. Although predominantly high-income based, in North America gated communities are increasingly a middle-class phenomenon.
4. d Illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell their properties by telling them that a certain people of a certain race, national origin or religion are moving into the area
5. e The location of a place relative to other places.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. An effect in economics in which an increase in spending produces an increase in national income and consumption greater than the initial amount spent.
   1. Greenbelt
   2. Stratified society
   3. Formative era
   4. Multiplier effect
2. The physical character of a place
   1. Site
   2. Sunbelt
   3. Suburb
   4. Zoning
3. a process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area
   1. Centrality
   2. Deglomeration
   3. Central city
   4. Gentrification
4. A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
   1. Central city
   2. Central place theory
   3. Gentrification
   4. Centrality
5. City that is urbanized, industrialized, and has suburbs
   1. Feudal city
   2. Central city
   3. Primate city
   4. Modern city

5 True/False Questions

1. Mercantile city → a city in which a central square became the focus of the city flanked by royal, religious, public, and private buildings: streets leading to such squares formed the beginnings of a downtown

   True        False

2. Manufacturing city → a city in which a central square became the focus of the city flanked by royal, religious, public, and private buildings: streets leading to such squares formed the beginnings of a downtown

   True        False

3. Nonbasic sector → a sector in which workers are responsible for the functioning of the city itself

   True        False

4. Primate city → Cities that arose during the Middle Ages and that actually represent a time of relative stagnation in urban growth. This system fostered a dependent relationship between wealthy landowners and peasants who worked their land, providing very little alternative economic opportunities.

   True        False

5. Acropolis → an extensive concentration of urbanized settlement formed by a coalescence of several metropolitan areas. The term is commonly applied to the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the U.S. extending from Boston, MA to Washington, D.C., a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)

   True        False