Urban Morphology

What was the first hearth of civilization?

• Peru
• Nile
• Indus
• Mesopotamia

What promoted urbanization more than any other event?

• highways
• industrial revolution
• commericalization
• minimum wage

________ is the process of settlement, formation, expansion, and change.

• Suburbanization
• Urbanization
• Urban Sprawl
• City Growth

Grid street patterns are most typical for cities in

• North America
• South America
• Asia
• Europe

Inner city neighborhoods face all of the following challenges except 

• a lack of social and economic diversity
• a culture of poverty
• deteriorating housing
• increased crime

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service.

• range
• hearth
• hinterland
• redlineing

This is the rapid, often poorly planned spread of development from an urban area outward into rural areas

• urban sprawl
• metropolitan area
• rural fringe
• whooping cough

The central city and its surrounding suburbs is known as a

• Megalopolis
• Zoning Laws
• Urban Morphology
• Urban Area

A mega-city is defined as

• a city with more than 10 million people
• a city with more than 20 million people
• a city that has global influence
• a city that receives more migrants than loses emmigrants

Which statement is true, Morphology is

• The study of form

• The study of Urban form

• The study of type of the cities

• The study of geography