Sprawl is the

Sprawl is the

A) change in density within an urban area from the center to the periphery.
B) period in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic.
C) development of new housing sites not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
D) land maintained as open space surrounding an urban area.
E) increasing population density in rings two and three of the concentric zone model.

Answer: C

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AP Human Geography Chapter 13

• In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area?
• The largest number of trips are made for
• The process of legally adding land area to a city in the United States is
• The area of the city where retail and office activities historically were clustered was the
• Metropolitan Statistical Areas
• The largest percentage of the U.S. population lives in
• Compared to whites, African Americans in U.S. cities are more likely to be
• In recent years urban residents are more likely to shop in
• As a result of high land costs the American CBD is characterized by
• The U.S. government has encouraged the use of cars in part by
• Social area analysis attempts to explain
• A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is
• Public transportation
• Factories have moved to suburban locations in part because of
• The city plus its surrounding built-up suburbs is the
• A legal form of segregation in U.S. cities is achieved through
• A process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvements is
• The underclass is characterized in part by high rates of
• Compared to the private automobile, public transportation offers more
• The CBD attracts offices primarily because of its
• According to the multiple nuclei model an airport is likely to attract nearby
• A recent change in the density gradient has been
• The density gradient
• In U.S. cities the underclass is

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