Urbs 230 Midterm Questions With Complete Solutions

Urbanization correct answer: - 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 correct answer: The average annual rate of change in world urban population has decreased over time Urban Age correct answer: 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 correct answer: large size, high population density, and socially heterogeneous people Stats Can definition of urban correct answer: - Pop center with at least 1000 people and pop density of 400 people per square km Stats Can urban center sizes correct answer: - Small pop center: 1,000 - 29,999 - medium pop center: 30,000 - 99,999 - Large pop center: 100,000+ How do surrounding areas build up the metropolitan area? correct answer: based on people's jobs, daily activities in relation to the city center What is a census metropolitan area? (CMA) correct answer: - Urban areas including cities and their suburbs Stats Can definition of CMA and CA correct answer: - 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 correct answer: - 1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 m^2 - 1 are = 100m^2 - 100 hectares = 1km^2 Challenges of measuring urban globally correct answer: - Compatibility of spatial boundaries - Criteria used to classify urban and rural - Insufficient pop data - Globalization: fast transport and telecommunications 5 causes of sedentary societies correct answer: - Climate warming: ability to grow more crops for longer - Religion - Agriculture: surplus food, reorganization of society, non agriculture jobs - Permanent settlement - Larger population Urban agglomeration correct answer: - Continuous urban areas that include core cities and surrounding suburbs Megalopolis correct answer: a region in which several large cities are connected "in a row"