Exam 9: Urban Geography

Comparing Luanda,Angola to a suburb of Tokyo one is struck by the fact that the urban morphology reflects the fact that Angola lacks a __________ class.

Where did the first urban development originate?

In a model urban hierarchy,the population of a city,town or village is inversely proportional to its rank in the system (i.e.if the largest city is 4 million the second will be 2 million or 1/2,the third will be 1/3 and so on). This is known as

Rome created a huge urban system. The integration of the Roman Empire was greatly facilitated by a

Define urban sprawl and describe the landscape of sprawl typical to North American cities. How does new urbanism respond to urban sprawl? What criticism has been made of attempts to construct communities along new urbanist lines?

Which is not among the components which enabled the formation of the first cities?

The response of the urban system of the American South and Southwest to the influx of migrants over the past three decades conforms with predictions of central place theory.This is called the ________ phenomenon.

Which of the following is both the least urbanized and the most rapidly urbanizing realm of the world?

The manufacturing city (post Industrial Revolution)first emerged in

What term came into use to describe the spatial components of the metropolis of the late twentieth century?

The Etruscans were the predecessors of the Romans.

Urban places in the ancient world were

The relative location of a city refers to its

Ancient Athens,for all its fame,was small by ancient standards with approximately 12,000 residents.

In core area cities the practice of buying up and rehabilitating deteriorating housing which resulted in the raising of housing values and a social change in neighborhoods is called

Urbanization occurred in all urban hearths at about the same time.

Latin American cities feature the deterioration of inner city neighborhoods (slums)similar to their North American counterparts.

Burgess' concentric zone model emphasized homogenous pie shaped wedges of land use extending from the CBD to the cities edge.

Choose one of the following models of urban structure: African,Latin American,or Southeast Asian and compare it to the model of urban structure of a European city.Highlight both differences and similarities.

Which feature typical of ancient urbanization was not present in the Nile River Valley hearth?