APHG Ch. 13

The central city and its surrounding suburbs is known as a

• Megalopolis
• Zoning Laws
• Urban Morphology
• Urban Area

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

• Concentric Zone Model
• Griffen-Ford Latin American City Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

A model showing a CBD that is divided into three groups/sections: a colonial CBD, a periodic and informal market place and a traditional business center. The neighborhoods in this model are often based on ethnic connections and the periphery of the city is composed of squatter settlements due to rapid industrialization.

• Sector Model
• De Blij Sub-Saharan City Model
• Burgess' Model
• New Donut Model

A ring of land maintained by parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area

• Greenbelt
• Urban Land
• Green Land Usage
• Sprawl Limitation

A model of the internal structure of cities, created by Harris and Ullman, in which social groups are arranged around in a collection of nodes of activities

• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Concentric Zone Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

A model of North American urban areas consisting in an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a belt way or ring road.

• Peripheral Model
• New Donut Model
• Filtering
• Urban Area Model

The process of converting a neighborhood from a predominantly low-renter renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-owned area

• Renewal
• Gentrification
• Conversion of Area
• Urban Renewal

Which urban model best explains the spatial impact of automobiles and the construction of interstate highways on metropolitan areas in the United States?

• concentric ring
• peripheral/galactic city model
• sector model
• multiple  nuclei model

Squatter settlements in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) cities are usually located

• along major highways
• on the outskirts of the urban area
• in warehouse districts
• adjacent to industrial areas

Large cities develop many nodes around which different types of people and activities cluster. This describes the

• peripheral/galactic
• multiple nuclei
• sector
• concentric