Urban Geo Week 1 Vocab

City with a population of more than 10 million people

• Megacity

• Metacity

• urban area

• Edge City

• World city

A city with a population of more than 20 million people.......

• Megacity

• Metacity

• World Citie

• Perifiery city

• Rank Size Rule city

Cities that have influence not only over their country or region, but also across the globe.. Think ESPeN

• World cities

• Metacity

• Megacity

• Core City

• Peripheral city

a diagram used to illustrate land cost prices drop as distance from the CBD grows is known as.......

• Von Thunen Model

• Concentric City Model

• Bid Rent theory

• Sector Zone Model

• Hoyt Theory of Real-estate

Research conducted in the field through actions such as interviews, focus groups, surveys and observations is known as

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• Critical View Analyst

• Precision Data Collection

• Data mining

Data that can be measured, counted, and put into a numerical context.........

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

• Geographic data

• Road survey

• Interviews

A single planned development designed to include multiple uses, such as residential, retail, educational, recreation, industrial and office spaces is.........

• Mixed use development

• Ecological footprint

• Walkability Neighborhood

• the Central Business District

_____________is the creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed use communities centered around or located near transit stations.

• Transportation-Oriented development

• New Urbanism

• Redlining

• High Line City Development

• Hoyt Sector Model

_____________create sustainable communities by placing development in convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and environmentally responsible. (Think Mixed use development)

• Smart-growth policies

• Mixed use zone

• New urbanism

• Slow growth cities

• Urban growth boundary

_________allows multiple land uses in the same space or structure.

• Mixed-use zoning

• Tradition zoning

• Threshold

• Central place theory

• Gravity Model Theory