Which of the following describes urban hierarchy...?

Which of the following settlement types has no urban function and offers few (if any) services?

Which of the following is a settlement usually involved in one economic activity of around 500 to 2,500 people?

Which of the following is a settlement with a variety of functions and services, consisting of around 2,500 to 20,000 residents, usually possess a form of self government and that may grow around a specialized economy?

Which of the following is a settlement with the most services, consisting of over 20,000 residents, and usually are the regional center of government?

A hinterland is...

Range is...

Threshold is...

Function is...

What is the idea that the largest city in a country will have approximately double that of the second largest city in a country?

If the largest city in a country following the rank-size rule has approximately 15,000,000 people how many people will the 3rd largest city have?

Where did urban settlements first develop as egalitarian societies?

The city of Shenzhen's position close to the major city of Hong Kong in China, is describing its

Mexico City's unique feature of being built in a dry lake bed refers to its...?

The idea that the population of a city (or town) will be inversely proportional to its rank in a country is...?

Which of the following qualifies as a low order good/service?

The idea that markets and services tend to be nested hierarchies with smaller towns serving smaller settlements is known as...?

Which of the following is the first stage of John Borchert’s “American Metropolitan Evolution”-4 Stage Model of Evolution?

Which of the following stages of John Borchert’s “American Metropolitan Evolution”-4 Stage Model of Evolution coincided with the Industrial Evolution?

Which of the following is the process where land outside the urban environment becomes urbanized?

Which of the following is the division of the city into certain regions or zones such as the CBD?

Developed by Ernest Burgess, this urban model was composed of 5 rings shaped zones that come out from the CBD.

Developed by Homer Hoyt, this urban model describes how different types of land use come out from the CBD in wedges.

Developed by Chauncy Harris & Edward Ullman, this urban model describes how functional zonation occurs around more than one center or nodes.

Developed by Chauncy Harris after studying Detroit, this urban model describes the spread of U.S. cities outward from the CBD to the suburbs leaving a declining inner city.

__________________ can be described as unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.

__________________ is when banks would identify “risky” neighborhoods and refuse loans (marked with red lines on a map) which would unofficially continue segregation.

__________________ is when people move back to the central cities buy up houses, rehabilitate houses, and raise land values/taxes, and force out the original population.

__________________ is the desire to turn public spaces into private use with things such as shopping, sports, restaurants, etc. (all within walking distance).

Cities that function at the global scale, beyond the reach of the state borders, functioning as the service centers of the world economy are known as...?

The practice of ____________________ is when people of one ethnic groups (usually middle-class whites) would be frightened into selling their homes for cheap when they hear that another ethnic group (Africans, Hispanics, etc.) are moving in. These homes would then be sold for a massive profit by real estates agents/banks.

Fenced-in neighborhoods with controlled access which segregate society economically in modern days. Found all over the world after development in the U.S. during the 1980s.

According to rank-size-rule, which of the following is true about the second-largest city in a country?

What is the process of transforming the central business district into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike?

Which of the following would most likely have the smallest range?

Mega/Meta cities all over the world are growing due to which of the following factors?

Which of the following is a common trait amongst some the earliest agricultural societies?

The idea that places which are larger and closer together will have greater interaction. This interaction can be determined by the distance between two places, movement of people between them, and trading of goods between these two cities.

Which of the following models has edge cities which each have their own economic, social, and political identity?

The Concentric Zone Model divides the city into 5 concentric zones defined by their__________.

Which of the following would most likely distort the predictions of the Gravity Model of flow and interaction?

"Percent urban" refers to...?

Which of the following describes a cities position in relation the a countries infrastructure & physical characteristics surrounding it?

Which of the following would a likely not be found within a CBD?

A major issue that can arise from gentrification of neighborhoods is...?

Seoul, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City are all examples of_____________________. Meaning they are more than double the size of the next largest city in the country.

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Urban planning in the United States is accomplished through...?

Which North American City Model emphasizes edge cities, connected by roads (beltways), surrounding a declining inner city?