Urban Models Application Formative

Which model has the following strength: more modern, shows edge cities, shows how the CBD is not as important anymore

• Sector

• Multiple-nuclei

• Concentric Zome

An urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that has more services than a village and but not as many specialized services as a city.

• Town

• Urbanized Area

• Micro-City

• Large Village

In Hoyt’s Sector Model lower income neighborhoods are usually located

• in the first ring around the CBD.
• adjacent to the industrial and transportation corridor.
• on the east side of the city.
• in a wedge that extends from the CBD to the suburbs.

According to the classic bid-rent curve, what happens to the value of land as one gets closer to the Central Business District (CBD)?

• Land gets used more extensively.
• Land gets more expensive.
• Land gets used less intensively.
• Land gets more affordable along busy streets.

Due to the availability of cars, highways, and inexpensive land outside of urban areas, makes this process more prevalent.

• Sprawl

• Filtering

• greenbelts

• Boomberg

One similarity between CBDs in London, England and Chicago, Illinois are that they both have which of the following?

• retail and office activities
• plethora of residential areas
• large skyscrapers 
• Greco-Roman structures

Within the Sector Model, the better housing is located in which area?

• a corridor from downtown to the edge of the city
• an outer ring far outside the city
• nodes near universities or airports
• gentrified inner-city areas

When the area within a city is being analyzed by geographers, what are they looking at?

• where/how people are distributed within the urban area
• ideas for where to place social services
• which city model the city most resembles
• where and why squatter settlements develop in LDCs

True or false: In the sector model, families with similar incomes are likely to live in the same sector of residences 

• True
• False
• The sector model does not account for income
• The sector model does not include residential

Barriadas, favelas, etc. are usually located in which area of LDCs?

• Periphery outskirts of the city

• Young development areas

• Public Housing Zones in the CBD

• Suburban areas