Cities and Urban Life - Ch. 6 - Spatial Perspectives

Geography and climate are often determining factors in locating a city.

• True
• False

Which is most likely to help in overcoming environmental limitations?

• Ritual Sacrifice
• Ingenuity & Technology
• Good Clean Coal
• Alien Intervention

Which would NOT be a positive social factor to urban growth?

• Unique amenity
• Religious or educational advantage
• Administrative or political purpose
• Void of strategic military advantage

North American cities tend to reflect the primary consideration of defense.

• True
• False

Gridiron cities were developed to facilitate the movement of goods and people and to divide the land more easily.

• True
• False

Robert Park, urban ecologist, suggested: 1) social life to be characterized by economic and political competition.

• True
• False

Park posed: 2) Population inhibits invasion-succession effect as poorer/less skilled immigrants build in outside areas.

• True
• False

Ernest Burgess believed cities expand outward in a series of concentric zones from its central business district.

• True
• False

Hoyt's sector theory suggests cities are divided in strictly concentric zones instead of pie-shaped residential parts.

• True
• False

Multiple nuclei theory (Harris/Ullman) argued for complex, constant, and unpredictable transformation.

• True
• False