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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher and The Garden of Gethsemane
The model for urban land use that most directly describes the formation of edge cities is
The theory that explains the regional organization or urban areas, based on their functions and the goods and services they offer, is called
As you travel from center city to the outskirts of the city, the cost of land-rents (bid-rents) usually
According to Christaller's central place theory, larger towns are farther apart than smaller towns are because
North American landscapes include many ____ shaped builidings
What term did the United Nations first coin in the 1970s for cities that had more than 10 million inhabitants?
The process of converting a low-income renter neighborhood into a middle-class owner neighborhood is
According to Burgress' concentric zone model for land use in cities, the "zone in transition" contains light industry and
Latin America cities have what common characteristic in the model developed by Dr. Larry Ford?
Classic ______________ cities have narrow, winding streets, open-air markets, many dead-ends, and countryards surrounded by high walls.
The multiple nuclei model of urban structure develop by Harris and Ullman arose from the idea that______________ was losing its dominant position in the metropolitan city.
New York City is divided into five __________, in order to better organize social services for millions of people.
The sub-field of urban geography that focuses on how cities connect to one another and how they are distributed nationally and globally is best described as the study of
An example of a city that conforms to the concentric zone model of urban growth is
Ravenstein's gravity model states that spatial interaction, including migration, is directly related to the size of the population and the
Which of the following most closely describes the leading trend in retailing in the United States during the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s?
When geographers look at urban settlements, they often refer to a functional area with a country containing a city, where a large percentage of workers are employed as a
International company headquarters, significant global financial functions, and a polarized social structure are defining characteristics of
A good example of a centripetal force in political geography is