Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land Use Part #2

5 Written Questions

1. A spatial generalization of the large, late-twentieth-century city in the United States. It is shown to be a widely dispersed, multicentered metropolis consisting of increasingly independent zones or realms, each focused on its own suburban downtown; the only exception is the shrunken central realm, which is focused on the Central Business District (CBD).
2. A process through which tendencies for economic growth are self-reinforcing; an expression of the multiplier effect, it tends to favor major cities and core regions over less-advantaged peripheral regions
3. A new urban cluster of economic activity that surrounds nineteenth-century downtowns
4. in griffin ford model (updated by larry ford) adds a ring highway around the outskirts of the city
5. Unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land with little concern for urban planning.

5 Matching Questions

1. Gentrification
2. Hoyt's Sector Model
3. Redlining
4. Greenbelt
5. Shantytowns

1. a Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard.
2. b A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD)
3. c A practice by banks and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be a high risk for housing loans
4. d A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
5. e The displacement of lower-income residents by higher-income residents as buildings in deteriorated areas of city centers are restored

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
   1. Racial Steering
   2. Blockbusting
   3. Basic Sector
   4. Redlining
2. The disamentiy sectors in Latin America contain relatively unchanging slums or barrios
   1. Exurb
   2. Greenbelt
   3. Edge City
   4. Favelas
3. A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
   1. Zoning Ordinances
   2. Urban realm
   3. Periferico
   4. Gated Communities
4. The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords.
   1. Basic Sector
   2. Non-Basic Sector
   3. Disamenity Sector
   4. Urban Sprawl
5. A community's collection of basic industries
   1. Edge City
   2. Exurb
   3. McGee Model
   4. Economic base

5 True/False Questions

1. Ghettoization → to isolate in or as if in a ghetto

   True        False

2. Uneven Development → The tendency for industry to develop in a core-periphery pattern, enriching the industrialized countries of the core and impoverishing the less industrialized periphery. This term is also used to describe urban patterns in which suburban areas are enriched while the inner city is impoverished.

   True        False

3. Harris & Ulman's Multiple Nuclei Model → A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD)

   True        False

4. Racial Steering → Realtors steer nonwhites to non white neighborhoods.

   True        False

5. Urban Realm Model → A spatial generalization of the large, late-twentieth-century city in the United States. It is shown to be a widely dispersed, multicentered metropolis consisting of increasingly independent zones or realms, each focused on its own suburban downtown; the only exception is the shrunken central realm, which is focused on the Central Business District (CBD).

   True        False