Urban Models Quiz

What accounts for the shifting spatial pattern between the Concentric Zone Model and the Sector Model?

• People recognizing a need to be located close to their place of work in the CBD.

• Socioeconomic divides between the upper, middle, and lower classes.

• The development of town cars and railroads passing through CBDs.

• There was no shifting spatial pattern between these two models.

The development of a “residential suburb” in the Multiple Nuclei Model can be attributed to which 20^th century innovation?

• The increasing availability of housing in the densest parts of the city center.

• The increase in independent automobile usage following WWII

• A widening gap between the richest and poorest classes of the United States with a declining middle class.

• The increasing cost of land the further you move away from the city center.

According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of

• corridors

• rings

• nodes

• sectors

Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as

• squatter settlements

• public housing

• the zone in transition

• suburbs

Why do many African cities contain multiple commercial districts?

• Colonial CBD formed apart from traditional commerce centers

• Africans were not allowed to use the CBDs used by Europeans

• African urban planning promoted multiple CBDs

• One CBD is not enough for Africa’s growing urban population

Homer Hoyt’s sector model is based on what fundamental principle?

• Development based on the location of amenities

• Development is centered on transportation routes

• Development is structured around the CBD

• Development is based around enterprises such as airports

What is the common characteristic in Latin American cities according to the model?

• A spine of high-class housing extended from the city center

• Three distinct CBDs: colonial, traditional and market zones

• Dominance of the suburbs in urban growth

• Favelas or squatter settlements in the interior of the CBDs

Which urban model includes nodes such as a port, a university, an airport and a park?

• sub-saharan African city model

• concentric zone model

• multiple nuclei

• sector model

In this urban model, land prices would be highest in the area labeled

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

A common characteristic of all three models of urbanization

• CBD is always in the middle

• none of them include a suburb

• immigrants live in single-family dwellings

• working class homes located farthest from the CBD