KNOW - AP Geography



Know and Be Able To Chpt. 13) URBAN PATTERNS

KNOW (21)

annexation

CBD

central place theory

concentric zone model

conurbation

density gradient

edge city

entrepôt

filtering (filter process)

galactic city

gentrification

greenbelts

Gravity Model

hinterland

Latin American city model

Market area

megalopolis

MSA (et. al.)

multiple nuclei model

new urbanism

peripheral model

primate city

public housing project

rank-size rule

redlining

scattered site

squatter settlement

sector model

suburb

sprawl

underclass

urban realms model

urban renewal

world city

zone in transition

zoning ordinance

BE ABLE TO

• “defining” a city: site and situation characteristics.

• contrast European and North American cities in terms of:

✓ CBD functions and landscape

✓ suburban growth patterns

✓ forces driving urbanization

• explain the growth of suburbs in terms of:

✓ social and cultural views

✓ developments in transportation

✓ current economic changes

• differentiate between models of internal city structure:

✓ Concentric zone (Burgess model)

✓ Sector model (Hoyt model)

✓ Multiple nuclei model (Harris and Ullman)

✓ Galactic city model

✓ Borchert’s epochs of urban transportation development

• describe the elements and their relationships in the post-modern city in terms of the following:

✓ “galactic city”

✓ “edge cities” (boomburgs, greenfields, uptowns)

✓ Suburbanization of CBD functions

✓ World cities and megacities

✓ Urban planning and design: gated communities, New Urbanism, smart-growth

• describe models of cities in Latin America, North African, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia

• describe contemporary urban issues: insurance discrimination, changing demographic and social stuctures, uneven development (zones of abandonment, disamenity, gentrification, suburban sprawl & urban sustainability, urban environmental issues (brownfields, farmland protection, etc)

• explain and illustrate important models dealing with the urban hierarchy

✓ Central-place theory

✓ Rank-size rule and primate cities

READING ASSIGNMENTS

❑ Rubenstein, Chapter 12: Settlements and Services

❑ Rubenstein, Chapter 13: Chapter 13: Urban Patterns

❑ FOCUS, Reading 18: The Changing Small Town in the Sunbelt

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