AP Human Geography Chapter 12-13 (Part 1)

In a simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities are clustered is the

• central business district

• central commerce zone

• urbanized downtown area

• hub

Retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have

• no threshold

• no range

• services for office workers

• a need for rapid transportation

• a need for large amounts of horizontal space

Cities tend to situate convention centers and sports complexs in their CBDs because

• they hope to lower real estate prices and tax revenues in their downtown areas.

• of their low ranges and thresholds

• they hope to stimulate more business for downtown restaurants, bars, and hotels

• they have a need for the kind of rapid transportation that is only available in the CBD

• the CBD offers large amounts of horizontal space

Even with the diffusion of modern telecommunications, many lawyers, financial analysts, and public officials in CBDs still exchange information with colleagues primarily though

• face to face contact

• high-cost influence peddling

• interstate highway systems

• the internet

• television and radio brodcasts

Land values are high in the CBD primarily because of

• core petition for limited space

• high threshold and range

• less intesnive land use

• the lack of skyscrapers

• the lack of residential space

As a result of high land costs, the American CBD is characterized by

• less inensive land use

• the construction of skyscrapers

• suburban sprawl

• a high threshold and range

• the reuse of existing buildings

Which activity tends to locate on the street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typical North American CBD?

• government

• industrial

• office

• retail

• educator

A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

• public administration

• industrial

• office

• retail

• legal

European CBDs are similar to those in North America because they both contain

• retail and office activites

• extensive residential areas

• large numbers of skyscrapers

• structures inherited from medieval times

• ancient Roman structures

The zone in transition in the U.S cities typically contains which of the following?

• legal offices and parking lots

• skyscrapes, suburbs, agriculutural land, parking lots, and restaurants

• agricultural land

• suburbs, agricultural land, parking lots, and transportation hubs

• warehouses, industry, and poorer-quality housing