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AP HUG

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
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show city  
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Site   show
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show relative location in reference to surrounding features  
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show settlement outside of a city with streetcar lines  
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show a set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times  
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metropolis   show
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metropolitan statistical area   show
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Micropolitan statistical area   show
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suburb   show
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Urbanization rate   show
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show regional population over 20 million  
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megacities   show
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suburbanization   show
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show The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner  
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automobile cities   show
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decentralize   show
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show nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities; “mini downtowns”, usually have tall buildings, concentrated retail, & few residences & are located near the convergence of major transportation routes  
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show More than 100,000 residents that is not a core city: a suburb that has become a city because it got so big  
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infill development   show
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show A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well–to–do families  
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world city   show
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gated community   show
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show a ranking of cities, with the largest and most powerful cities at the top  
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show The population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy\n(City A– top; city B= 1/2A; City C= 1/3 A; City D= 1/4 A, etc)  
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Primate city   show
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show model developed by Christaller, explains why cities are located where they are  
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Threshold   show
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Range   show
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Gravity Model   show
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Concentric Zone Model/ Burgess Model   show
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Hoyt Sector Model   show
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Multiple–Nuclei Model (Harris & Ullman)   show
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Urban Bid Rent Theory   show
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Southeast Asian City Model   show
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Gentrification   show
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Zoning regulations   show
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show When city revenue cannot keep up with increasing demands for city services on decaying urban infrastructure  
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show human–made space in which people live, work, etc.  
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smart growth   show
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show Development that grows up rather than out  
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diverse housing options   show
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show interspersal of different types of development in a neighborhood (residential, business, entertainment, etc)  
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New Urbanism   show
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greenbelt   show
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slow–growth cities   show
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show practice of identifying high risk neighborhoods and refusing to lend money to people who want to buy property in these areas.  
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show a practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners to sell their homes by convincing them that the property values are decreasing because of black families moving in  
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show The mass movement of white, middle class, people from the city to the suburbs  
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Environmental racism   show
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show temporary and illegal housing  
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show City planning that requires a certain amount of new construction to be affordable for people with low incomes  
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show Zoning that attempts to keep low & moderate income people out of a neighborhood  
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show not in my backyard: people who try to stop affordable housing in their neighborhood  
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show large–scale redevelopment of the built environment in downtowns  
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show when a government spends more than it receives in taxes  
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show The practice of using local land–use regulation to preserve the local property tax base  
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urban heat island   show
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urban footprint   show
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show the idea that natural disasters become an urban phenomenon as more people live in cities  
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show Properties whose use or development may be complicated by the presences of hazardous substances or pollutants  
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