UAP 2014 EXAM KEYWORDS
What is geography?
What is urban geography?
What is space?
Distance?
Place?
What is urbanization?
Urbanism?
Types of factors that shape urbanization
Example of economic factors.
Example of social factors.
Example of cultural factors.
Example of political factors.
Example of technological factors
Organized/Fordist capitalism
Disorganized/Post-Fordist capitalism?
Who is Kondratieff? Theory?
Who is Kuznets? Theory?
Does the environment shape behavior? Is it vice versa? Examples?
Urbanization as outcome and framework of behavior
What is a city?
Definition/characteristics of the city
What is an Urban System?
Scales of the urban system
What is Urban Form?
Urban system vs. urban form (or structure)
National/regional/global scales of the urban system
Urban hierarchy (e.g., Roman Empire)
Decline of European urbanism during Middle Ages-
Spread of European urbanism through colonization
World cities
Renaissance of city-states today?
Crisis of the nation-state today?
When do first cities appear?
When do they begin to spread?
Largest cities before 1800s—where?
What percentage of the population of North America lives in urban areas?
Which continent urbanizes at the greatest speed today?Asia
Which continents have the highest percentages of urban populations?
Where do first cities appear?
Theories of urban origin (e.g., agricultural surplus; defense needs; technological
advancement; specialization of labor, etc.)
Three types of urban growth: planned, organic and mixed
Basic characteristics of traditional, pre-industrial cities
The Industrial Revolution and the urban system
