Beginnings of Urbanizatio n Urban Models Miscellaneous Urban Theories, models, & people (development) General Development
Two significant contributing factors in the formation of cities
What is Agricultural Surplus and Social Stratification?
The elite and leadership classes lived here in the ancient cities of the Huang He River Valley
What is inside the inner wall?
This hearth of urbanization is debated as to whether its cities diffused from this early hearth
What is the Nile River Valley; from Mesopotamia?
The hearths of agriculture developing in multiple places is an example of this cultural phenomena
What is independent innovation?
Upon these ideas of the Greeks, the Romans expanded in order to create the Forum
What is the Acropolis and the agora?
The Sector Model of urban structure recognizes the importance of this primary factor in the development of the city in the United States
What is transportation?
DAILY DOUBLE
This picture represents the term for slums, which represents a section of this model (3 parts) Rio de Janeiro
What are Favelas, Disamenity sector (or Pereferico), Griffin-Ford Model of the Latin American city?
States that a city is a complex structure that includes numerous nodes of business and cultural activity
What is the multiple nuclei model?
A business such as a high-end department store with a high threshold would most likely be located in this place in the urban framework
What is the CBD?
The locational characteristic that most Asian cities have in common according to the model of the Southeast Asian city
What is they are located on ports?
This is the area surrounding a village or town that depends on that urban place for services
What is a hinterland or trade area?
City A- 10 million City B- 5 million City C- 2.5 million City D- 1 million; The above cities located in the same country represent this geographic factor, that would not apply when…
What is the rank-size rule, when countries have dominant primate cities?
Cities in poorer parts of the world generally lack enforceable laws to ensure the orderly use of space. Such laws are called…
What are zoning laws?
The controversial process of middle-class people buying and renovating inner-city housing is called
Gentrification
These are the three most important alpha cities
What is New York City, London, and Tokyo?
The man who created the World Systems Theory
Who is Wallerstein?
Places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery
What is Semi-periphery?
DAILY DOUBLE!
The man who worked to minimize the agricultural costs of economic development by actively participating in the Green Revolution to battle hunger in developing nations
Who is Norman Borlaug?
Type of structuralist theory in which relationships between countries and regions affect development possibilities (especially seen in colonialism)
What is Dependency Theory?
Stage in Rostow’s modernization model in which country experiences a slower population growth and diffusing technology
What is Stage 4: Drive to Maturity?
Concentrations of economic development in a city built by the government
What are islands of development?
An indicator of low social welfare, in which a person seeking escape from poverty is deceived or bullied into working in non-favorable conditions.
What is trafficking?
When progress is being made in technology, production, and socioeconomic welfare
What is developing?
The process that has occurred in El Salvador, changing from the colon to American dollar
What is dollarization?
Playing a large part in foreign debt, the World Bank’s president is of this nationality (the nationality of the country that the World Bank is headquartered in)
What is American?