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| C.B.D stands for Central business district. |
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| Peak Land Value Intersection. |
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| Why are only the best shops located in the PLVI? |
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| Because there is more accesibility, meaning more costumers, therefore the competition is though, and only the best shops can survive. |
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| Why is the buying space outside the city less expensive? |
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| Because there is less demand and more land. |
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| Why would people buy a house in the outter city? |
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| The place is prettier, there probably is a forest or a lake, less pollution from the city, less noise... |
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| How do you call the city model that looks like a target? |
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| A concentric model or a burgess model |
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| How do you call the city model that looks like a helice in a plane? |
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| Which are the five different areas on a city model? there are 5 |
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| Central business district. Wholesale light manufactiruing. Low classs residential, Medium class residential, high class residential. |
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| Name 2 kinds of land use in the CBD. |
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| What is urban redevelopment? |
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| Is when a large area is cleared and new buildings are built. |
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| How is the movement from the country side to the city called? |
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| Give four urban pull factors |
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| Higher paid jobs, more food resource, more services like schools and hospitals, and high entertainment like theathers and cinemas... |
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| Give four rural push factors. |
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| There isnt a big amount of jobs besides farming, lack of services, lack of entertainment,farming is a very hard job with very little pay, and if there is a drought... |
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| Name four problems likely to occur in urban areas when a large number of people move in. |
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1- Many inmigrants have to work in factories.
2. The housing is very expensive and they end up living ilegally in areas around the city.
3. because to many people are coming to the city, to find any available house, affordable or noe, is very hard.
4.Finding a job will be very hard in the city if too many people come, causing unemployment. |
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| How does the reality of living in a city differ from the perception of life held by the people in rurak areas? |
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| People believe that as soon they get to city they will get an office job and live in a house with higher quality, and be able to enjoy all the entertainment and services of the city. Instead, they arent qualified anough for any other job than farming, so instead of a clam office jobe they have to start to work in an industry, many times illleagly for not much money, yet they still cant rent a house to live in, so they move outside of the city and somehow build their house out of tin and cardboard, so life in the city isnt as much fun as they though. |
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| When someone buys a house in a low income area, and yet has a high income, they upgrade the house. |
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| To rebuild or to plan a building area. |
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