KNOW



Know and be able to URBAN PATTERNS

KNOW

annexation

CBD

central place theory

concentric zone model

conurbation

density gradient

edge city

entrepôt

filtering (filter process)

galactic city

gentrification

greenbelts

hinterland

Latin American city model

Market area

megalopolis

MSA (et. al.)

multiple nuclei model

new urbanism

peripheral model

primate city

public housing project

redlining

scattered site

squatter settlement

sector model

suburb

sprawl

underclass

urban realms model

urban renewal

world city

zone in transition

zoning

BE ABLE TO

• describe the problems of “defining” a city and some of the potential solutions.

• contrast European and North American cities in terms of:

✓ CBD functions and landscape

✓ suburbs

✓ suburban growth patterns (greenbelts vs. sprawl)

• 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)

✓ Other models from outside North America

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

✓ “galactic city”

✓ “edge city”

✓ Suburbanization of CBD functions

✓ New Urbanism

• describe a typical city in an LDC and

✓ explain the influence of development on it

✓ contrast housing patterns with MDCs

• list and evaluate the problems of the inner-city vs. suburbs.

• 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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