Unit 6 Vocabulary Review Quizizz

Urban model with a pre-colonial CBD, a colonial CBD, an informal market zone, and neighborhoods that are set up by ethnicity

• Southeast Asian Urban Model

• Concentric Zone Model

• Sub-Saharan African Model

• Multiple Nuclei Model

The theory that states the land closer to the central business district is more valuable, and therefore more expensive. Land further from the CBD is less valuable,  and therefore cheaper

• bid-rent theory

• central place theory

• gravity model

• primate city

An abandoned urban space, that was one a factory or warehouse, that is unused and rotting

• new urbanism

• brownfield

• gentrification

• mass transit system

The theory that states cities will have more specialized services, because they have a higher range and threshold. Rural areas will have less specialized services, because they have a lower range and threshold

• gravity model

• urban sprawl

• weber's least cost theory

• central place theory

An urban space found in the suburbs that has certain space dedicated to retail, office, and other non-residential services. Does not have the traditional layout of a city

• multiple nuclei model

• concentric zone

• galactic city

• edge city

The movement in England where wealthy landowners bought up public land that had previously been used by peasants to farm

• second agricultural revolution

• subsistence agriculture

• enclosure

• organic farming

A prosperous district found outside of the suburbs

• exurb

• boomburb

• megalopolis

• squatter settlements

The organization of facilities, such as roads, bridges, canals, sewage, garbage, cell phone towers, police/fire service, etc.

• new urbanism

• mass transit system

• blockbusting

• infrastructure

A type of urban development that creates zones where there can be residential areas in the same vicinity as commercial areas

• new urbanism

• mixed-use development

• gentrification

• mass transit systems

A city that is more than twice as large as the second largest city. Example, Mexico City’s population is 21 million; Guadalajara’s population is 4 million.

• primate city

• rank-size rule

• central place theory

• brownfields