Cities & Urban Land Use unit test
A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.
World city
Concentric zone model
Suburbanization and sprawl
Gentrification
Christaller's Central Place Theory
Bid-rent theory
Megacity and metacity
Urbanization
Site and situation for cities
Sector model
Urban redevelopment and renewal
Latin American, African and Southeast Asian city models
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Rank-size rule and primate city
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Squatter settlements
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Urban sustainability challenges
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Range and threshold
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsNO STIMULUS. Cities in both core and periphery countries have grown rapidly since 1950, but the form that growth has taken differs from region to region.
A. Define urbanization.
B. Describe one characteristic of a megacity.
C. Describe one push factor that contributes to rural-to-urban migration in periphery countries.
D. Explain why squatter settlements develop on the periphery of many rapidly growing cities.
E. Explain how the concentric zone model differs from the Latin American city model in the location of high-status residential areas.
F. Explain one economic consequence of suburbanization for central cities in the United States.
G. Explain how gentrification can both improve and harm existing neighborhoods.