Urban Geography

What is this a picture of?

• Borchert's transportation model

• Concentric Zone model

• Gravity model

• Multiple Nuclei Model

the rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns

• urbanization

• urban sprawl

• urban infill

• suburbanization

the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.

• urban sprawl

• suburbanization

• urbanization

• new urbanism

The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city

• Urbanization
• Metropolitanization
• Suburbanization
• Ruralization

an area outside the typically denser inner suburban area, at the edge of a metropolitan area

• edge city

• primate city

• central business district

• exburb

An example of an edge city is...

• Paris

• Los Angeles

• Atlanta

• Istanbul

A city with more than 10 million residents is a ____ but a city with more than 20 million residents is a ____.

• megacity, metacity

• metacity, megacity

• primate city, world city

• megalopolis, global city

What makes a city a megalopolis?

• When they are classified as a world city

• High population density, heavy industrialization, and lack of physical boundaries between cities
• More than 20 million residents

• More than 10 million residents

What is an example of a global city?

• DC

• Gotham City

• Istanbul

• New York City

What country best follows the primate city rule?

• Canada

• China

• France
• United States