Changes in Urban Areas

Urbanization is

• The process of urbaning
• When an increasing percentage of a country's population lives in cities
• When more people move from one city to another
• When the size of cities grow

The two ways that urban areas grow are

• nitrogen and phospherous

• natural increase and migration

• increasing birth rates and migration

Reasons for counter-urbanization include

• high land prices, pollution, high crime

• reinvestment into inner-city areas, gentrification

• attractions such as the olympics and new skyscapers

Which is not typically features of CBD in MEDC

• High density of pedestrians, PLVI
• concentration of banks and businesses
• low residential areas, areas of high shopping quality
• low rents, poor transport links

Which is NOT a strategy to increase a city's sustainablity

• reduce reliance on fossil fuels
• increase/improve greenspace
• increase recycling rates
• build more shopping malls

Which city was the Burgess Model originally based on?

• London

• New York

• Chicago

• Washington D.C.

Name the model

• The Sector Model
• Concentric Zone Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• British Urban land Use Model

Which of the following words BEST describes the characteristics of a city?

• Rural 
• Suburban 
• Urban 

Wal-Mart is opening in the small town of Vado, New Mexico. This is creating over 400 jobs in the area. Population is quickly increasing. This is an example of...

• Urbanization
• Inflation
• Urban Center
• Influence

Which word means outside of the city, but not all the way out in the country?

• urban

• suburban

• rural