GEO 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Asymmetric Federalism, Primate City, Urban Realm
26 Jun 2018
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GEO 101 Final Exam Study Guide
Urban Geography:
Central business district- Focus of the cities commercial, social and civic life
Ex: corporate offices, shopping, consumer services and govt buildings
Central place theory- organizes elements of frequency, size, function, and spacing
into a unified spatial networks of cities and towns
Low-order cities- small, many in number, relatively close together
High order cities- off all goods and services from gas stations and grocery stores to
professional basketball and zoological gardens and everything in between
Concentric ring model- model that explains urban land use in a pattern of concentric
rings around the city center
Edge city- suburban nodes of employment and economic activity featuring high-rise
office space, corporate headquarters, shopping, entertainment, and hotels
Gentrification- physical revitalization of some older, architecturally, and historically
significant neighborhoods
Metropolitan areas- large-scale entity, can contain several urbanized areas
discontinuously built up but an economic whole
Modernism- belief in the preminence of scientific rationality and the inevitability of
human progress
-Emphasis on universal models and function over form
Multiple nuclei model- model that explains urband land use as organized around
several separate nuclei
Network city- two or more previously independent cities strive to cooperate by
improving transportation and communication
Order- relative ranking based on how specialized they are, how large a market area
is needed to keep them in business, and how far people are willing to travel to
obtain them
Postmodernism- rejection of the notion that there are any universal models for how
the world functions and what is best and denies that any perspective, style, or
subgroup has a monopoly on truth or beauty
-Emphasis on context, aesthetics, and mixing of land
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Document Summary
Central business district- focus of the cities commercial, social and civic life. Ex: corporate offices, shopping, consumer services and govt buildings. Central place theory- organizes elements of frequency, size, function, and spacing into a unified spatial networks of cities and towns. Low-order cities- small, many in number, relatively close together. High order cities- off all goods and services from gas stations and grocery stores to professional basketball and zoological gardens and everything in between. Concentric ring model- model that explains urban land use in a pattern of concentric rings around the city center. Edge city- suburban nodes of employment and economic activity featuring high-rise office space, corporate headquarters, shopping, entertainment, and hotels. Gentrification- physical revitalization of some older, architecturally, and historically significant neighborhoods. Metropolitan areas- large-scale entity, can contain several urbanized areas discontinuously built up but an economic whole. Modernism- belief in the preminence of scientific rationality and the inevitability of human progress.
