Cities Across the World

Megacities have a population of ...?

• Over 9,000

• Over 10 million

• Over 50 million

• Over 100 million

Where are the majority of megacities located?

• Africa

• Europe

• Asia

• The Americas

Which of the following cities was already a megacity in 1950?

• Shanghai

• Dhaka

• Java

• Tokyo

Unrestricted low-density development of residential and commercial activities over a large expanse of land is

• sprawl
• edge city
• new urbanism
• smart growth

What are suburbs?

• Rows of homes in the city.
• Large tracks of land divided into small plots for houses in the city.
• Large tracks of land divided into small plots for houses on the outskirts of town.
• Large tracks of land for large houses in the city.

Edge cities can be found...

• along transportation routes of urban areas

• in the Central Business District (CBD)

• beyond the periphery of a city

• in rural areas past the suburbs

A residential district beyond the suburbs

• exurb

• edge city

• boomburb

• urban sprawl

Movement to residential communities, located outside of city centers as a result of the greater availability of the automobile and cheap fuel, money for new housing, the building of superhighways, and the baby boom which required bugger houses for bigger families.

• Blockbusting

• Zoning

• Gentrification

• Suburbanization

Ever-expanding suburbs, boomburbs, and exurbs are part of a city's...

• threshold

• social heterogenity

• metropolitan area

• rank-size

Economic expansion after WWII, low-interest mortgages for veterans, & the emergence of highways and a car-centered lifestyle

• causes of suburbanization

• effects of suburbanization

• causes of edge cities and exurbs

• effects of edge cities and exurbs