 | Urban Geography
After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
- Identify the most and least rapidly urbanizing areas of the world and be able to explain the difference in demographic terms.
- Differentiate between the terms city, urbanized area, town, suburb, and metropolitan areas.
- Classify locational attributes of a city in terms of site and situation characteristics.
- Separate the economic activities of a city into basic and nonbasic and explain what a multiplier effect.
- Explain the rank-size rule and compare it to systems dominated by a primate city.
- Describe the major features of Central Place Theory.
- Explain how competitive bidding for land affects land use within a city.
- Describe the idealized land use distribution of both western and non-western cities and explain why the patterns exist as they do.
- Describe the three criteria used to identify urban social areas and explain their spatial patterns in cities.
- Explain the factors that promote suburbanization and central city change.
- Describe the process of gentrification.
- Explain the differences in urbanization and urban structure between developed and developing parts of the world.
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