URBS 230 Midterm Exam Questions and
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Urbanization - ✔✔- Process(es) of transformation of places and
populations into a state
of being urban
- Transforming space, material, economic, demographic growth and
development
Peak and Bain table shows that - ✔✔The average annual rate of change in
world urban population has decreased over time
Urban Age - ✔✔One half of the world's population is now urban, and the
rate is very rapid, particularly int he global south
Wirth's Definition of a City - ✔✔large size, high population density, and
socially heterogeneous people
Stats Can definition of urban - ✔✔- Pop center with at least 1000 people
and pop density of 400 people per square km
Stats Can urban center sizes - ✔✔- Small pop center: 1,000 - 29,999
- medium pop center: 30,000 - 99,999
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, - Large pop center: 100,000+
How do surrounding areas build up the metropolitan area? - ✔✔based on
people's jobs, daily activities in relation to the city center
What is a census metropolitan area? (CMA) - ✔✔- Urban areas including
cities and their suburbs
Stats Can definition of CMA and CA - ✔✔- Area consisting of one or more
municipalities situated around the core
- Must have pop of at least 100,000 and 50,000 like in the core.
- CA must have a core pop of at least 10,000
Size of a hectare - ✔✔- 1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 m^2
- 1 are = 100m^2
- 100 hectares = 1km^2
Challenges of measuring urban globally - ✔✔- Compatibility of spatial
boundaries
- Criteria used to classify urban and rural
- Insufficient pop data
- Globalization: fast transport and telecommunications
5 causes of sedentary societies - ✔✔- Climate warming: ability to grow
more crops for longer
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Urbanization - ✔✔- Process(es) of transformation of places and
populations into a state
of being urban
- Transforming space, material, economic, demographic growth and
development
Peak and Bain table shows that - ✔✔The average annual rate of change in
world urban population has decreased over time
Urban Age - ✔✔One half of the world's population is now urban, and the
rate is very rapid, particularly int he global south
Wirth's Definition of a City - ✔✔large size, high population density, and
socially heterogeneous people
Stats Can definition of urban - ✔✔- Pop center with at least 1000 people
and pop density of 400 people per square km
Stats Can urban center sizes - ✔✔- Small pop center: 1,000 - 29,999
- medium pop center: 30,000 - 99,999
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, - Large pop center: 100,000+
How do surrounding areas build up the metropolitan area? - ✔✔based on
people's jobs, daily activities in relation to the city center
What is a census metropolitan area? (CMA) - ✔✔- Urban areas including
cities and their suburbs
Stats Can definition of CMA and CA - ✔✔- Area consisting of one or more
municipalities situated around the core
- Must have pop of at least 100,000 and 50,000 like in the core.
- CA must have a core pop of at least 10,000
Size of a hectare - ✔✔- 1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 m^2
- 1 are = 100m^2
- 100 hectares = 1km^2
Challenges of measuring urban globally - ✔✔- Compatibility of spatial
boundaries
- Criteria used to classify urban and rural
- Insufficient pop data
- Globalization: fast transport and telecommunications
5 causes of sedentary societies - ✔✔- Climate warming: ability to grow
more crops for longer
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