This Worksheet goes along with Urban Geography Reading 01

Urban Geography Worksheet one
1) What made the earliest villages possible?

2) What were the social and economic changes that allowed early cities to start?

3) Name the areas of the world were the earliest cities got started.

4) How were these early cities laid out? What was found in the city center? What surrounded these early cities?

5) Why did the rich live in the center of these early cities?

6) In terms of population, how large were these early cities?

7) What important social or economic need had to be satisfied before early cities could be developed?

8) What was an agora? What was an Acropolis? In which famous city or culture did this type of urban situation get started?

9) What was a Forum? Where was the forum located?

10) How many people lived in early Rome?

11) What two major advances for cities were developed by the Romans?

12) What happened that allowed some European cities to develop during the 11th century?

13) What were the four features of the Medieval European city?

14) What was one of the major reasons why people flocked to Medieval European cities?

15) How large was London around 1800?

16) What changes were made in European cities to accommodate government workers? Wealthy citizens? Aristocrats?

17) What fraction of England's population was urbanized by 1870?

18) After the Industrial revolution started, Where did the wealthy people of the city move?

19) What idea did the Industrial Revolution remove from European thought?

20) What was the major attraction of the European city?

21) What was America's urban population in 1830? 1880? 1930?

22) What was one of the major reasons why America cities grew?

23) The earliest American cities were located near a ...

24) Where were the American cities of the early 1800s located near?

25) What transportation development changed the need of American cities to be located near a river or large body of water?

26) What transportation change allowed American workers of the mid-1800s to live farther from their work?

27) What forced American architects to develop skyscrapers?

28) What drew American young people to the cities of the late 1800s?