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| What is french geographer Jean Gottmann's very special region? |
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| Megalopolis (Boston to D.C.) |
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| Urban forms are manifested by? |
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| Dense patters of streets and buildings, industrial centers, retail and wholesale clusters, and government complexes |
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| Site and Situation relate to what in megalopolis? |
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| one of the most important site characteristics of Megalopolitan growth was? |
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| a coast like full of abundant indentions that could be used as ports |
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| Greater opportunity for access to water transportation can be attributed to what? |
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| what makes port cities in megalopolis different from other port cities? |
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| they are all relatively close to one another |
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| what part of megalopolis was covered by glaciers? |
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| what two bays formed from the drowned lower courses of the Susquehanna and Delaware rivers? |
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| Chesapeake Bay & Delaware Bay |
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| Which Megalopolis state has the worst soil? |
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| traveling inland from the Atlantic Coast, the flat plain is succeeded by a rolling, frequently hilly landscape called? |
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| what occurs when rivers flow off the piedmont |
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| waterfalls and rapids occur called the fall line |
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| for early settlement the fall line hindered what? |
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| movement, physical boundary, water navigation |
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| what is not a benefit of the fall line? |
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| Megalopolis provided east ocean access to all cities except? |
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| D.C., Baltimore, Wilmington, Philly, Tranton |
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| what region in Megalopolis was covered by hardwoods and pine forests used for ship construction? |
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| the New England hills/Boston |
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| what places in Megalopolis had very productive fishing banks? |
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| New England, Novascotia, Newfoundland |
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| what provided access to the great lakes to the west, which provided access to the broad interior of the country? |
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| Hudson-Mohawk River system |
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| as settlement density and economic activity on the the interior plains increases large amount of goods produced were taken to? |
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| St. Louis and New Orleans |
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| which city benefitted the most from its natural access to the interior of the U.S. |
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| During the colonial Period the banks and other financial institutions underwrote investments in what? |
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| local manufacturing and shipping |
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| Service activities, wholesale and retail businesses, centers of info. and control all grew and supported further urban expansion, mostly in what states? |
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| NY, Philly, Boston, Baltimore |
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| Which fall like city in unique in that its growth has followed directly from the expansion of the national government structure? |
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| what is present in the metropolitan areas of Megalopolis? |
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| Tall Buildings, busy streets, crowded housing, industrial plants |
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| Urban regions have begun to merge with one another in a process called? |
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| settlement density increases as we approach? |
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| modern cities resulted from the? |
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| locational consequences of economic decisions |
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| and Increasing number of urbanities have minimized some disadvantages of city living by moving residents to where? |
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| a zone outside of the suburban fringe |
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| In older cities in Megalopolis downtowns were laid out travel was by foot or carriage, therefore the cities devoted a percentage of their central areas to landscape features that support human interaction |
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| the easy movement of info and ideas was supported in cities by these intensively developed systems? |
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| telephone, telegraph, teletype |
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| 90 years ago central busioness districts were crowded with a spiderweb of networks of telephone lines, showing the intensity of what? |
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| the prime motivation for intra urban interaction is the geographic separation of what? |
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| sense a variety of activities are carried on in a city, interaction is stimulated between or within zones of the same? |
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| public service functions are only indirectly productive in an economic sense but are necessary for |
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| the increasing portion of the work force in cities beginning to live outside the city in residences made it uneconomical for? |
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| mass transit to reach them |
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| the speed and flexibility of truck transport accelerated the diversion of short-haul freight from rail to? |
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| what has been the most fundamental and far-reaching changes in Megalopolis in the last 40 years? |
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| the great expansion of area of each of the metropolitan areas |
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| which city extended its population the farthest in the last few decades? |
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| What city grew too large to support and serve its population? |
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| the spread of urban population far beyond the city limits also had a strong impact on rural activities such as? |
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| as land on the margins or urban areas is approached by dense settlement and intense economic activity? |
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| when people who continued to work within major cities relocated their residences, it was only natural that a high proportion chose sites that? |
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| allowed easy access to work place |
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| what are the seams along which metropolitan populations spread first and fastest? |
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| arterial highways & interurban railroads & main feeder roads |
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| prior to 1910, the cities of Megalopolis absorbed large numbers of immigrants from? |
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| European immigrants entered the U.S. mostly through what port? |
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| How the the outbreak of WWI affect the flow of immigrants? |
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| in what period did people begin to leave the large metropolitan regions in greater numbers than those who moved in? |
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| skyscrapers began showing up around? |
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| a major impact of massive office clusters emerging within suburban rings surrounding the central cities is? |
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| the location of white collar jobs and the the patter of travel to these jobs |
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| what cities lay on the fall line? |
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| Trenton, Philly, Baltimore, D.C., Richmond |
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| What States are entirely in Megalopolis |
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| Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware. |
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| which states are only partially in Megalopolis |
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| New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia |
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