Unit 6 Urban Geography Study Guide Thing Guy

Why did the United States suburbanize so rapidly during the period between 1950-present?

• Mass produced automobile

• New home construction

• Interstate highway systems

• Readily available low cost, long-term mortgages

• All of these bad boys

Answer explanation

It's true. All of these contributed to suburbanization by providing a lot of homes at affordable prices via VA Home Loans and affordable automobiles and highways allowed people to move further and further out from the city.

This key characteristic of urban areas is true of most major cities of the world.

• Most cities exist along rivers and seacoasts.

• Most are in areas that are not suitable for agriculture.

• Most exist in the tropics.

• Most of the fastest growing are in areas with high standards of living.

Answer explanation

The fastest growing cities are in LDCs, not MDCs.

Migration from rural areas to urban areas is leading to rapid population growth in

• inner cities in developed countries.

• suburban areas in developed countries.

• megacities in peripheral countries.

• rural areas in peripheral countries.

Characteristics of world cities include which of the following?

• International company headquarters

• Significant global financial functions (stock exchange, banking institutions, etc.)

• Polarized social structures (inequity)

• All of the above

The minimum number of people needed to support a service is the definition for which key concepts in urban geography?

• Accessibility

• Range

• Threshold

• Hinterland

A state whose most populated city has 12 million in it would have approximately how many people living in the 3rd largest city if the state follows rank-size rule?

• 3 million

• 1 million

• 9 million

• 4 million

Answer explanation

Rank size rule takes the population of the largest settlement (city, urban area, metropolitan area) and divides it by n. N = the population of the settlement based in its sequential ranking (4th biggest city should have 1/4th the population of the largest city).

States who have an urban settlement that dominates politically, economically, socially, and that hosts at least 2x as many people as the next largest urban settlement follow which "rule" for urban ranking?

• Conurbation rule

• Primate city rule

• Rank size rule

• Edge city rule

Walter Christaller's Central Place Theory explains how​ a ​​____ provides services and functions to its ______ ​ .

• settlement, hinterland

• hinterland, city

• person, home

• rural areas, urban areas

The size and complexity of a city's functions (services provided, transit networks connected to, etc.) contribute to its place in the ....

• Threshold ratio

• Urban hierarchy

• Multiplier effect

• Sector model

Which of these is true?

• The concentric zone model has no transition zone.

• The multiple nuclei model has a single clearly defined core.

• The sector model is highly influenced by transit networks.

• The central business district is along a ring highway in the galactic model.