Human Geo Chapter 13

In a simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities are clustered is the

Retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have

Cities tend to situate convention centers and sports complexes in their CBDs because

Even with the diffusion of modern telecommunications, many lawyers, financial analysts, and public officials in CBDs still exchange information with colleagues primarily through

Land values are high in the CBD primarily because of

As a result of high land costs, the American CBD is characterized by

What activity tends to locate on the street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typical North American CBD?

A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is

European CBDs are similar to those in North America because they both contain

The zone in transition in U.S. cities typically contains which of the following?

According to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of

According to the sector model, the best housing is located in

According to Homer Hoyt's sector model, once a district with high-class housing is established, the most expensive new housing is built

According to the multiple nuclei model, an airport is likely to attract nearby

Chicago is a good location in which to develop urban models because it is located

Social area analysis attempts to explain

The multiple nuclei theory

A recent change in the typical U.S. density gradient has been

The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the

In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area?

According to the sector model, if family X has an income of $100,000 and family Y has an income of $40,000 but family Z has an income of $115,000

Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as

The areas on the periphery of cities in less developed countries are sometimes known as

The laws enacted in 1573 that specifically outlined how colonial Spanish cities were to be constructed were called the

After 1573, most Spanish colonial cities were designed to have

When the models of urban structure developed in Chicago are applied to Sao Paulo, one conclusion is that

Compared to the United Kingdom, the amount of sprawl in the United States is

Sprawl is the

British cities are surrounded by open space known as

The "Boswash" corridor that stretches from Boston to Washington, D.C., was named "Megalopolis"

People in the United States are attracted to suburbs in part because suburbs are characterized by

The largest component of the U.S. population lives in

Factories have moved to suburban locations in part because of

Compared to the United States, poor families in European cities are more likely to be

A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through

The largest number of daily trips are made primarily for

The U.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by

Compared to the private automobile, public transportation offers more

Public transit is more extensive in Western European cities than in the United States primarily because

Large numbers of employees of suburban businesses may suffer hardships because they do not

The process that includes subdividing a house from single-family owner occupancy to multiple occupancy, is

During the process of ________, the owner may abandon the property because the rents that can be collected are less than the costs involved in upkeep.

A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements is

The city of ________ declined from 1.8 million inhabitants in 1950 to 700,000 in 2010.

Detroit is trying to figure out how to shut down and close off ________ because the city cannot afford to pay for street lights, garbage pickup, and police protection for the entire 360 square kilometers (139 square miles).

Public housing is

Gentrification

A process of converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class or upper-class is

Megalopolis refers to

Under certain conditions, according to U.S. law when a family is forced by a city to relocate,

In U.S. cities, the underclass is largely

Compared to whites, African Americans in U.S. cities are more likely to be

The U.S. government estimated in 2011 that the number of homeless people on any given night was about

Most people are homeless because they

About ________ of the homeless people in the United States are single men, and the remainder are women and children.

U.S. inner cities face fiscal problems because

Because so few people live in the CBD, urban areas are characterized by a high degree of

The attractions of shopping malls include all but which of the following?