APHUGE Urban Models & Challenges MHS

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The rapid spread of a city from its center is known as...

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Urban sprawl

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Identify this model with a traditional and a colonial CBD, an informal economy zone, and informal settlements along the periphery.

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African City Model

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Which urban model would best describe a city that includes edge cities along its beltways?

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galactic city

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Based on a comparison of the zones in the model shown, which of the following best explains how the model is limited in its representation of present-day urban land-use patterns? Options: The model does not account for the prices of agricultural land on the urban periphery, where land prices continue to decline. The model does not show that taller buildings constructed in the central business district are a result of increased land costs. The model does not indicate that land for apartment buildings is more expensive than land for single-family homes. The model does not account for the existence of suburbs composed of single-family homes where the housing structure is more expensive than the land it is built on. The model does not show the cost-to-distance effects of multiple suburban central business districts and the pattern of residential areas that surround them.

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The model does not show the cost-to-distance effects of multiple suburban central business districts and the pattern of residential areas that surround them.

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Which model of urban structure depicts a commercial spine bordered by an elite residential sector extending outward from the central business district? Options: Urban realms, Concentric Zone, Multiple Nuclei, Southeast Asian City.

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Latin American City

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An advantage of the Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model over the Burgess concentric zone model and the Hoyt sector model of internal city structure is that the multiple nuclei model

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easily incorporates construction of a new airport on the urban periphery

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The galactic city model was developed in response to the growth of suburbs and the need for a more complex model than the sector and concentric zone models. Which of the following is a strength of the galactic city model? It depicts exurban nodes.

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It depicts exurban nodes.

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Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?
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Its status as a primate city,
The Rank-Size Rule,
The Gravity Model,
Central Place Theory,
The Burgess concentric zone model

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Central Place Theory

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Starting in the 1990's, a movement known as _________ began to feature mixed-use neighborhoods with businesses and residential properties, walkable areas and a variety of price ranges for homes.

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new urbanism

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Which of the following is a megacity in Southeast Asia? Beijing, Sao Paulo, Jakarta, Tokyo

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Jakarta