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After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:
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1. Summarize the history of urban growth around the world and describe the current pattern of the world's largest cities. |
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2. Describe the origins of human settlements. |
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3. Explain the differences among the terms city, town, suburb, urbanized area, and metropolitan area. |
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4. Describe the functions of cities and explain the difference between basic and nonbasic sectors of a city's economy. |
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5. Distinguish between countries that follow the rank-size rule and those that are dominated by a primate city. |
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6. Explain Central Place Theory and discuss its importance. |
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7. Discuss how land use is determined within the city. |
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8. Compare and contrast the basic models of urban land use structure. |
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9. Summarize and discuss surbanization in the United States. |
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10. Explain and discuss the problems of central cities. |
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11. Compare and contrast cities in the developed and developing worlds. |