Exam 9: Urban Geography

New York's Times Square and Berlin's Potzdammer Platz are examples of giant media reshaping cities into

The core of a city is called the

The multiple nuclei model of urban structure developed by Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that _______ was losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city.

Subsaharan Africa is both the least urbanized and the slowest urbanizing realm in the world.

Segregation in the United States was reinforced by the financial practice known as

Ancient cities were not large by modern standards. The cities of Mesopotamian and the Nile Valley probably had populations of

If cities in the poorer parts of the world share a common characteristic,it may result from

Gated communities do not exist in communist countries ruled by egalitarian values (e.g.China).

The decline in density and the spread of cities associated with the building of freeways in the second half of the twentieth century has been pejoratively referred to as

A hinterland reveals the _________ of each settlement.

Athens may have been the largest city in the world at the time of its existence,with a population estimated at

In Burgess' concentric zone model,the zone of transition became

The growth of ethnic neighborhoods in _________ is less than in other European countries.

Early cities were often theocratic centers with temples being a prominent urban feature.

The focal point of the Southeast Asian city is the

Urban sprawl is closely associated with rapid urban population growth.

A structural element of many Latin American cities,the disamenity sector,is illustrated by the

After 1970,new suburban downtowns (edge cities)were spawned in the outer city of Los Angeles,with their leading concentrations

The layout of a city,the physical form and structure,is referred to as

Ethnic neighborhoods in European cities reflect migrants from