AP Human: Unit 7 - Urbanization

Match the following

• residential areas

• Urban

• movement of industries out of a city

• Ecumene

• permanently inhabitated earth's surface

• Decline

• high # of people

• suburbs

• low # of people

• rural

Match the following

• developing towns/cities, causes & effect

• urbanization

• people --> suburbs

• reurbanization

• proportion of urban pop : rural pop

• suburbanization

• permanent human population

• Settlement

• suburbs --> urban

• percent urban

Match the following

• population diversity

• satellite city

• river valleys

• urban hearths

• urban center + nearby territory + ag 🏙

• exurbanization

• town near big city becomes independent

• city-states

• --> rural

• social heterogeneity

Match the following

• places that are closer communicate more

• urban system

• communities w/ rail lines

• pedestrian cities

• cities where people can walk

• gravity model

• interdependent set of cities in a region

• streetcar suburbs

• it's a small world after all!

• time-space compression

Match the following

• largest city dominates the urban hierarchy

• central place

• next largest city will be fractions

• hamlet

• largest city is more than 2x than next
• primate city
• tiny community

• rank size rule
• location where people go for goods

• central place theory

Match the following

• country influence expands beyond borders

• threshold

• world's biggest cities (10 mil. people+)

• megacity

• how far are you willing to go 4 somethin

• world/global cities

• pop. required 4 a business to stay alive

• range

• because it's the fairest shape

• hexagon

____________ is a single, uninterupted urban area

Characteristics of Brasilia:​ ​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• --> thrust capital
• relieves rio
• residents live in satellite cities
• vision of an ideal city structure
• conurbation
• failing economy
• failed atempt
• social heterogeneity
• metropolitan

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) urban characteristics

,

(b) suburbanization (post WWII effects)

,

(c) city definition

,

(d) borchets model

• ag surplus

• car-centered life

• MSA - nodal region - cities w/ 10,000<50,000 people

• steel vail

• "white flight"

• economic expansion

• new highways from gov

• iron horse

• metropolitan: adj. cities where population is high + continuous

• sail wagon

• job specialization

• rise in social stratification/leadership class

• legally

• epochs

• racial tension

• auto-air amenity

• purchasing power increase

• mortgage loans

What does urban growth lead to?

• suburbanization

• decline

• sustainability

• satelite city