6.1-6.4

• Which of the following best explains why countries such as Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Nigeria would construct a new capital city in a different location from the old capital city?

  The desire to build new, planned administrative centers with improved infrastructure was the driving force
• Which of the following similarities best explains why cities such as Venice, Hamburg, London, and Marseilles were early front-runners in urban development in Western Europe?

  These ports cities were centers of trade, serving as links in terms of capital and labor mobility
• Site

  Describes the characteristics at the immediate location.

  Ex: climate, labor force and human structures
• Situation

  The location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.

  Ex: on the coast, or by the railroad, ports, ships
• Agricultural surplus

  Allows people to seek other opportunities instead of farming
• Which site factor best explains the linear pattern of urbanized areas extended between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Boston?

  The development of cities in the regions was influenced by the abundance of deep-water harbors and waterfalls where the flat coastal plans met higher lands
• City States

  Consisted of an urban center( city) and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages
• Why is most migration rural to urban in less developed countries?

  Lack on economic opportunities create push factors in agricultural communities
• Sail-Wagon

  Water ports became very important because of the poor road conditions which made long distance travel between cities difficult
• Borchert's transportation model

  Describes urban growth based on transportation technology
• Edge city

  Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities
• Megalopolises

  Result in the merging of midsized cities with other metropolitan areas
• Edge cities 2

  Are smaller and are associated with a specific suburbs. Also result in rapid suburban growth and the expansion of retail ares, business centers and more
• What best explains a geographic characteristic shared by megacities in the global periphery?

  Megacities demonstrate unplanned growth patterns and often contain squatter settlements
• Which of the following best explains why New York City has more specialized stores than do smaller urban places in the United States?

  Center place theory, because they predict how and where central places would be functionally and specially distributed