Ch13keyissue4
Chapter 13 Learning Guide – Urban Patterns
Key Issue 4 – Why Do Suburbs Face Distinctive Challenges?
Pgs. 424 – 434
Urban Expansion
1. What is annexation?
Process of legally adding land area to a city.
2. What is required before an area can be annexed by a city?
Majority of the residents in the affected area have to vote in favor of being annexed.
3. In the past, why did peripheral areas desire annexation?
City offered better services such as water supply, sewage disposal, trash pickup, police & fire protection.
4. What has changed?
Resident prefer to organize their own services rather than pay city taxes for them
5. Define city:
Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit
6. What are the three (3) basic characteristics of a city?
Elected officials
Ability to raise taxes
Responsibility for providing essential services
7. Define urbanized area:
The city and the surrounding built-up suburbs.
8. What is the functional area of a city?
Metropolitan Statistical Area
9. What does the MSA include?
- Urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000
- The county in which the city is located
- Adjacent counties with high population density & large percentage of resident working in the central city’s county
10. Define council of government:
Cooperative agency consisting of representatives from the various local governments in the region.
11. What is a Megalopolis?
great city
12. What is the Megalopolis from Boston to D.C. called?
Boswash or Boswash Corridor
The Peripheral Model
13. List the elements of an urban area according to the peripheral model.
Urban area with an inner city surrounded by residential & business area tied together by a ring road or beltway
14. Complete the table below regarding peripheral areas.
Problems They Lack
Problems They Have
Severe social, physical & economic inner-city problems
Sprawl & segregation
15. Define edge city:
Nodes of business & consumer services
Key Issue 4 – Why Do Suburbs Face Distinctive Challenges?
Pgs. 424 – 434
Urban Expansion
1. What is annexation?
Process of legally adding land area to a city.
2. What is required before an area can be annexed by a city?
Majority of the residents in the affected area have to vote in favor of being annexed.
3. In the past, why did peripheral areas desire annexation?
City offered better services such as water supply, sewage disposal, trash pickup, police & fire protection.
4. What has changed?
Resident prefer to organize their own services rather than pay city taxes for them
5. Define city:
Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit
6. What are the three (3) basic characteristics of a city?
Elected officials
Ability to raise taxes
Responsibility for providing essential services
7. Define urbanized area:
The city and the surrounding built-up suburbs.
8. What is the functional area of a city?
Metropolitan Statistical Area
9. What does the MSA include?
- Urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000
- The county in which the city is located
- Adjacent counties with high population density & large percentage of resident working in the central city’s county
10. Define council of government:
Cooperative agency consisting of representatives from the various local governments in the region.
11. What is a Megalopolis?
great city
12. What is the Megalopolis from Boston to D.C. called?
Boswash or Boswash Corridor
The Peripheral Model
13. List the elements of an urban area according to the peripheral model.
Urban area with an inner city surrounded by residential & business area tied together by a ring road or beltway
14. Complete the table below regarding peripheral areas.
Problems They Lack
Problems They Have
Severe social, physical & economic inner-city problems
Sprawl & segregation
15. Define edge city:
Nodes of business & consumer services