If you feel like it, the following worksheet goes along with Urban Geography Reading Two

Urban Geo Worksheet Part Two

1) What is the basic function of a city?

2) What problem does the function of a city overcome?

3) Give the a general definition of a city.

4) In the United States, what defines a city?

5) What two points did Van Thuen say about his model?

6) What did Van Thuen believe would break the zones up the way they did in his model?

7) What two geographic principles did Van Thuen's model suggest?

8) The Concentric Ring Theory and the Van Thuen model both believed what two concepts to be true?

9) What is a CBD?

10) Why did the people who lived in the low rent housing live where they did?

11) What is a neighborhood? What do the residents of a neighborhood share?

12) How are ghettos different than neighborhoods?

13) Define Site.

14) Define Situation.

15) What other factors determine the size of a city?

16) Why did Denver, Chicago, and Atlanta grow so rapidly?

17) During the Walking/Horsecar era, how did people get around? How did this affect the size and shape of cities?

18) When the automobile came around, what changes did this bring to the city?

19) How far away from their jobs were workers able to live because of the Freeway era?

20) By the 1950s, what services of the CBD were suburbs replacing? What do we call these new services?