Chapter 12: Services

  1. (Internet) Define private sector and public sector

Services in Early Urban Settlements

  1. (452) What were some early services in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and South Asia?
  2. (452) How did services improve in Greece?
  3. (452) How did services improve in Rome?
  4. (452) How did services improve in the Middle Ages?
  5. (Internet) What were the five most populous cities in 900-1100 C.E.?
  6. (Internet) What was the world’s largest city in the early 1800s?

Location of Contemporary Services

  1. (449) Give three reasons then explain why the New England colonies chose the clustered model.
  2. (454-455) Briefly explain three differences between urban and rural settlements.
  3. (Internet) What are the ten most populous cities in the world today?

Distribution of Consumer Services

  1. (434) Describe Central Place Theory and specifically what a central place is and the area surrounding it.
  2. (434)Why is the Central Place Theory done with hexagons?
  3. (437)Describe a primate city.

Business Services,

  1. (431) What kinds of services are available in world cities?
  2. (444) Explain the two kinds of services that are available in LDCs?
  3. (447) What are the three factors that attract talented people to a city?
  4. (Internet) Critical Thinking: Use the information in the text, including the maps, to identify a city to which each of the following might be attracted: a college graduate in her early twenties pursuing a career in robotics, a single male in his late twenties interested in pursuing a career in business, and married couple in their 70s with traditional values, who want to live in a city with warm weather.

Chapter 13: Urban Patterns

Models of Urban Structure,

  1. (466)Define concentric zone model, sector model, multiple nuclei model
  2. (internet) Read the section, and then use what you know about Minneapolis to write a 4–6 sentence paragraph that explains which of the three models is best for analyzing Minneapolis.

Applying Urban Models Outside North America

  1. (470-471)Write a 4–6 sentence paragraph that compares and contrast American cities with European cities.

Inner-City Physical and Social Issues

  1. (490) Give an example of each of the following and think of a Milwaukee:

a.filtering

b.redlining

c.urban renewal

d.public housing

e.gentrification

  1. Write a 4–6 sentence paragraph on the following topic: To what extent and in what ways does Minneapolis represent an underclass and the culture of poverty? (5 points)

Inner-City Economic Issues

  1. (Rebuilding America’s Inner cities CNN Article) Write a 4–6 sentence paragraph that summarizes inner-city economic problems.

Urban Expansion

  1. Write a 4–6 sentence paragraph that summarizes the problems of local government fragmentation.

Suburban Segregation and Transportation

  1. (flashmedia.glynn.k12.ga.us) The development of suburbs in North American metropolitan areas has greatly accelerated since the 1950s and 1960s. Discuss how three of the following have contributed to this acceleration:

a.transportation

b.housing production

c.landscape preferences

d.social and demographic trends