AP Human Geo - Unit 7 Cities and Urban Land Use

Chicago's relative location near other major city networks gave the urban place a comparative advantage for successful economic growth. This statement best describes Chicago's

• threshold

• site

• situation

• density

• functional zonation

Tony and Jacob are brothers who decided to move into an old warehouse in downtown New York City and fix it up into slick loft apartment complex. Tony and Jacob's actions are most closely classified as

• suburbanization

• urban morphology

• social stratification

• gentrification

• redlining

All the following are processes that have contributed to ghettoization in North American cities EXCEPT

• blockbusting

• redlining

• racial steering

• green belts

• suburbanization

Tokyo is many times larger than the second-ranked city in Japan, thus making Tokyo a(n)

• periferico

• central business district

• hinterland

• squatter settlement

• primate city

All of the following are common preconditions found in areas that became urban hearths EXCEPT

• access to water sources

• access to building materials

• arable land

• a long growing season

• social stratification

Which of the following processes most influences the existence of a zone of transition in concentric urban growth patterns?

• Exurbanization

• Successive immigration

• Agglomeration

• Decentralization

• Zoning

The Latin American city typically differs from the North American city in which of the following ways?

• The Latin American city often has higher densities in peripheral zones and less population density in the central business district.

• The central business district is more dominant in its influence over its related urban land in the North American city than in the Latin American city

• The Latin American city typically does not show as strong a trend toward suburbanization as does the North American city

• The North American city shows more influence of the sector model growth patterns than does the Latin American city

• The urban realms model is more strongly explanatory and predictive of Latin American urban growth than it is of North American urban growth

Which of the following is the smallest scale of geographic inquiry by the U.S. Census Bureau?

• Metropolitan statistical area

• Micropolitan statistical area

• Metropolitan area

• Census tract

• County

Which of the following central place functions is most likely to have the highest range of goods and highest threshold population?

• Used car lot

• High school

• Hand-surgery center

• Steakhouse

• Furniture store

Which of the following is a strong example of postmodern urban landscape?

• Cairo, Egypt

• Brasilia, Brazil

• London, England

• Washington, D.C.

• Rome, Italy