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.
Suburbanization and sprawl
Christaller's central place theory
Bid-rent theory
Squatter settlements
Concentric zone model
Range and threshold
Urban redevelopment and renewal
Site and situation for cities
Megacity and metacity
Urbanization
New Urbanism and smart growth
Multiple nuclei model
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Urban sustainability challenges
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: World city
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: Gentrification
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Rank-size rule and primate city
3 ptsFree response
7 ptsUrban models describe internal city structure, but cities also change through political and economic processes. (A) Identify the geographer or geographers associated with the multiple nuclei model. (B) Describe one way the multiple nuclei model differs from the concentric zone model. (C) Explain one reason the Latin American city model places low-income squatter settlements at the urban periphery while North American models place low-income housing near the center. (D) Define gentrification. (E) Explain one benefit and one cost of gentrification for existing residents of a neighborhood. (F) Explain how an urban growth boundary is intended to reduce sprawl. (G) Explain one criticism of urban growth boundaries as a policy tool.