WorksheetsAP HUG Urban Development
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Neighborhoods that are dominated by one ethnic group through its commercial establishments, community artwork, or other representations of the ethnicity on the landscape.
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Gentrification
Ghettoization
Squatter Settlements
Movement to residential communities, located outside of city centers as a result of the greater availability of the automobile and cheap fuel, money for new housing, the building of superhighways, and the baby boom which required bugger houses for bigger families.
Blockbusting
Zoning
Gentrification
Suburbanization
European cities characterized by dense population, narrow buildings, winding streets, and an ornate church or cathedral that marks the city center.
Islamic Cities
Medieval Cities
Colonial Cities
Latin American Cities
Suggests that the closer to the CBD, the higher the value of the land. Therefore only commercial enterprises can afford the land within the CBD.
Urban Sprawl
Gentrification
Bid Rent Theory
Commercialization
The three most important cities in the world are...
New York, Paris, and Shanghai.
New York, London, and Tokyo.
New York, London, and Beijing.
New York, Rome, and Shanghai.
The maximum distance that people are willing to travel to purchase a product or partake in a service, often depending on the particular product.
Hamlet
Hinterland
Threshold
Range
According to the rank-size rule, what do we know about the population of the second largest city
It is 1/3 the size
It is 1/2 the size
It is 1/4 the size
It is roughly the same size
Centers for economic, cultural, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce.
World Cities
Entrepots
Globalization
Metropolitan Area
Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on the outskirts of a city. These places have little or no access to publicly provided services such as water, sewage, garbage, or education, and therefore are unsanitary. Usually located in cities in developing countries.
Suburbs
Squatter Settlement
Hamlets
Villages
Barrio is a Spanish word for...
A sketchy neighborhood
A wealthy person living in the city
A Pub or Bar
A small bear
Where do most of the people in the United States live?
Central Cities
Rural Farms
Metropolitan Areas
Small Towns
today, the greatest number of urban dwellers is found in
Asia
Africa
North America
Europe
The practice by real estate agents of inducing the sale of homes in specific areas by insinuating that a different race is moving into the neighborhood.
Blockbusting
Ethnic Neighborhoods
Squatter settlement
Redlining
What is the name of the term that describes how a countrys second largest city is 1/2 the size of the largest and the third largest city is 1/3 the size of the largest city?
Primate Rule
Rank Size Rule
Bid Rent Rule
Redlining
What does the word economic refer to?
The production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
Climate change and its impact on physical geography
Family structure of a particular culture in different regions of the world
How big a city is
the largest city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy.
Village
Oligarchy
Primate City
Hamlet
What is the largest city in Mexico?
Leon
Ciudad juarez
Tijuana
Mexico City
How can primate cities have a positive effect on a country's economic development
Large markets for goods and services
Competition at a global scale
Unequal distribution of wealth and/or power
Brain drain — migration and unequal distribution of education, entrepreneurship, opportunities.
Centralized transportation and communication network.
