Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land Use

Unit 7 Notes Packet

Unit 7 Quizlet

Chapter 12 Key Issue 1: Where Are Services Distributed?

12.1.1: Describe the three types of services and changing numbers of types of jobs.

Chapter 12 Key Issue 2: Where Are Consumer Services Distributed?

12.2.1: Explain the concepts of market area, range, and threshold.

12.2.2: Explain the distribution of different-sized settlements.

12.2.3: Explain how to use threshold and range to find the optimal location for a service.

12.2.4: Understand the role of periodic markets in the provision of services in developing countries.

Chapter 12 Key Issue 3: Where Are Business Services Distributed?

12.3.1: Describe the factors that are used to identify global cities.

12.3.2: Explain the two types of business services in developing countries.

12.3.3: Explain the concept of economic base.

Chapter 12 Key Issue 4: Why Do Services Cluster in Settlements?

12.4.1: Describe the difference between clustered and dispersed rural settlements.

12.4.2: Explain the types of services in early settlements.

2.4.3: Identify important prehistoric, ancient, and medieval urban settlements.

12.4.4: Explain the two dimensions of urbanization.

Chapter 13 Key Issue 1: Why Do Services Cluster Downtown?

13.1.1: Describe the three types of services found in a CBD.

13.1.2: Explain the three-dimensional nature of a CBD.

Chapter 13 Key Issue 2: Where Are People Distributed Within Urban Areas?

13.2.1: Describe the concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models.

13.2.2: Analyze how the three models help to explain where people live in an urban area.

13.2.3: Describe how the three models explain patterns in European cities.

13.2.4: Describe how the three models explain patterns in cities in developing countries.

13.2.5. Describe the history of development of cities in developing countries.

Chapter 13 Key Issue 3: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding?

13.3.1: State three definitions of urban settlements.

13.3.2: Describe how metropolitan areas contain many local gove

13.3.3: Identify historical and contemporary patterns of suburban expansion.

13.3.4: Explain two ways in which suburbs are segregated.

13.3.5: Describe the impact of motor vehicles in urban areas.

13.3.6: State benefits and limitations of public transportation.

13.3.7: Describe recent and possible future improvements in vehicles.

Chapter 13 Key Issue 4: Why Do Cities Face Challenges?

13.4.1: Describe the processes of deterioration and gentrification in cities.

13.4.2: Explain the problems of a permanent underclass and culture of poverty in cities

13.4.3: Describe the difficulties that cities face in paying for services, especially in a recession.