Exam 13: Urban Patterns

Geographers C. D. Harris and E. L. Ullman developed the ________ model in 1945.

In European cities, much of the housing for low-income minorities and immigrants is in:

The modern suburb is segregated in two ways: by class (wealth, size of housing, and location) and by a separation from manufacturing and industrial activities.

The similarity between cities in Europe and developing countries is not a coincidence: European colonial policies left a heavy mark on the development of cities in developing countries.

The United States had 576 metropolitan statistical areas in 2009, for the most part found around southern and western communities previously considered rural in character.

The process of legally adding land area to a city is called:

This is the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.

The U.S. government paid 90 percent of the cost of limited-access ________.

In developing countries, as in Europe:

The three models describing the internal social structure of cities were developed in this city:

More than ________ percent of all trips within U.S. cities are made by car.

The best-known and most visually distinctive area of most cities is the ________.

Which of the following is most likely to be found in the second ring of a city in the concentric model?

Approximately 70 percent of Americans live in urbanized areas, including about 30 percent in central cities and 40 percent in surrounding jurisdictions.

The concentric zone model has 6 rings in it.

According to the peripheral model, an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by:

Which of the following is a major difference between CBDs in Europe and those in the U.S.?

Effective use of the urban-structure models depends on the availability of data at the scale of:

Which of the following is not true of annexation in the U.S.?

Which of the following is not one of the limitations of the three models on the internal social structure of the city?