Urbanization QuizName:

OMH:

Section I: Short Answer( 2 points each)

  1. Define urbanization.
  1. What is a MSA? What is its main characteristic?
  1. Define squatter settlements.
  1. Name TWO of the three world cities that exist today.
  1. Define a megacity.
  1. What are two characteristics of the CBD?
  1. What does bid-rent theory predict?
  1. Name TWOof the three criticisms of the Concentric Zone, Sector, and Multiple-Nuclei models.
  1. List ONE major difference between European cities and North American cities.
  1. Define Neo-Urbanism.

Section II: Matching (2 points each)

  1. Rate of UrbanizationA. Cities built and developed by Colonizers in conquered lands
  2. Level of UrbanizationB. original core of a city’s economy, like a nucleus of a cell
  3. Pre-Industrial CityC. drawing lines on map to identify areas where banks will not loan money
  4. Pre-Industrial Colonial CityD. % of people already considered urban
  5. CBDE. process by which middle-class people move into inner-city homes and renovate them
  6. FilteringF. cities that were developed prior to industrialization, shared characteristics
  7. RedliningG. speed at which population is becoming urban
  8. GhettoizationH. # of houses per unit of land diminish as distance from the central city increases
  9. GentrificationI. growth of areas of concentrated poverty
  10. Density gradientJ. process of subdivision of houses and occupancy by successive waves of low-income people

Section III: Models - Directions: IDENTIFY each model(5 points each)

Section IV: Multiple Choice (3 points each)

  1. The process of legally adding land areas to a city in the United States is:
  2. Accreditation
  3. Application of eminent domain
  4. Annexation
  5. Defined by urbanized area
  1. In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area?
  2. MSA
  3. Urbanized area
  4. CBD
  5. Central city
  1. The process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment is:
  2. Gentrification
  3. Redlining
  4. Filtering
  5. Blockbusting
  1. The underclass is characterized in part by high rates of
  2. Drug addiction
  3. Literacy
  4. Fire protection
  5. Employment
  1. Compared to white, African Americans in U.S. cities are more likely to be
  2. Clustered in suburbs
  3. Dispersed throughout the city
  4. Clustered in inner-city neighborhoods
  5. Distributed uniformly in the city
  1. Factories have moved to suburban locations in part because of
  2. Good rail connections
  3. Adequate space to build vertical structures
  4. Access to main highways
  5. Availability of large tracts of high-priced land
  1. According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of
  2. Corridors
  3. Rings
  4. Nodes
  5. All of the above
  1. According to the sector model, the best housing is located in
  2. A corridor from downtown to the edge of the city
  3. Renovated inner-city neighborhoods
  4. An outer ring surrounding the city
  5. Nodes near universities and parks
  1. Higher income people tend to live near the center of the city in all but which of the following regions?
  2. North America
  3. Western Europe
  4. South Asia
  5. Latin America
  1. The largest % of the U.S. population lives in
  2. Central cities
  3. Suburbs
  4. Nonmetropolitan areas
  5. All of the above

Extra Credit:

What is the zone of squatter settlements called in the Latin American Model.