GEO 793 EXAM REVIEW questions with answers

GEO 793 EXAM REVIEW questions with
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What are the 3 phases of urbanism? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Pre-
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Modernism: before 1950s || ||




2. Modernism: 1940s-1950s
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3. Post-Modernism: 1990s-2000s
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What is a slum? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a heavily populated urban area
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characterized by substandard housing and squalor, inadequate housing- often
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not recognized and addressed by the public authorities as an integral part of
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the city
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Modern Urbanism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-1940s-19502
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-creation of "regent park" from regent street
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-post war housing crisis
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-de mapped streets
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Post-Modern Urbanism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-1990s-2000s
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-heritage as commodity || || ||




-new developments that replicate old city forms (redevelopment of regent
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park for ex.)
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-Revitilization as code for gentrification || || || ||

,-spatial forms also returns to old style of mapped streets and small blocks
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-mixed-use (residential + recreational + commercial) || || || || ||




-Public private partnerships (PPP)
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REGENT PARK - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-North of shuter street
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-South of Gerrard || || ||




-Pre-modern urbanism: began as a slum for Iriish immigrants || || || || || || || ||




Concentric Ring Model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Developed by Earnest
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Burgess in 1924 to explain social patterns in Chicago
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-shows how a "typical" land is laid out
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-said it was shaped like rings
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-based on the idea that land values are the highest in the centre of a town or
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-has since been discredited as it doesn't include certain aspects such as
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topography and transportation || ||




the 5 stages of the concentric ring model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1.
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Central business District || || ||




2. Zone of transition
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3. Zone of independent workers' homes
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4.Zone of better residences
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5. Commuters Zone (most expensive homes found here)
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,Sector Model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Homer Hoyt, 1939
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-expansion of concentric ring || || ||




-zones in a city extend outward by transportation (such as highways)
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-brings transportation to bear on the model
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-wedges instead of concentric rings (looks like a pie)
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-not an orderly ring, can be made up of multiple neighbourhoods extending
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outwards

-Central Business District (CBD) is still at core of model
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the 5 stages of the sector model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Central
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Business District (CBD) || ||




2.Transportation and industry || ||




3.Low-class residential ||




4. Middle-class residential
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5.High-class residential ||




Multiple Nuclei Model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Chauncy Harris and
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Edward Ullman, 1945 || ||




-Brings in more than once centre || || || || ||




-incorporates more land uses (e.g. heavy industry, suburbs) to reflect changing
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realities of North American cities
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-Still based on Chicago model
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-multiple business districts, homes and neighbourhoods spring up around
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each of them || ||

, -much more disorganized than other 2
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Michael White's Model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Most recent model, 1987
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-Brings in changes of the late 20th century
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-Deindustrialization and rise of service economy || || || || || ||




-Decentralization and changes in suburbs || || || ||




Michael White's Model- 7 stages - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Core grows up
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instead of out, less retail, more government, financial, and business offices
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2. Zone in stagnation areas of disinvestment near CBD
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3. Several areas of low-quality housing, often occupied by those in poverty or
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minority ethnic groups || ||




4. Elite residential enclaves near centre of older cities, and at periphery.
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5. Rest of city is middle-class residences, often divided into neighbourhoods
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6. Institutional, industrial, and business centres scattered in middle class area
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7. Cities grow out along major roads, and peripheral centres may develop
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**BID RENT** - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. CBD with commerce and
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offices

2. Industry
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3. Residential with highest density nearest center
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*Most expensive is the middle*
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