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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