Mid-Term 'Terms'

This is an on-going list of terms that we have covered (or will cover) that may appear on the mid-term. They are either from the book or the lectures:

1^st Semester Terms:

Urban – rural Continuum

Economies of Scale

Economies of Agglomeration

How do we define a city?

NIMBY

Environmental Racism

HUD

Block Grants vs Categorical Grants

Predatory lending

Eminent Domain

The Tinkerbell Effect and examples

Framing and examples

Episodic Vs. Thematic framing

Thin Slicing

Externalities and examples

Positive and Negative Externalities

Systems Theory

Systems thinking examples

Factors increasing systems thinking

Feedback – positive and negative

Complex Adaptive Systems

The importance of numbers

Regulator trap

Political implications of counting

Unemployment rate and counting

Under and overreporting of welfare recipients

Hawthorne Effect

How does counting stimulate public demands for change

Thorngate’s Postulate of Commensurate Complexity”

Paradigm

The two urban paradigms and at least two thinkers influential in that paradigm

Urban Ecology and Urban Political Economy explanation of each and limitations of each

Explain traditional Concentric Zone Model

Quantitative methodology in urban areas

Qualitative methodology in urban areas

The postmodern approach

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

What shapes a city

Core and Peripheral countries difference

Occam’s Razor

Why did Rome fall – from a complexity standpoint

Law of diminishing returns

Why did the Byzantine Empire succeed?

Commercial Cities

Industrial Cities

Corporate Cities

Urban Ecological Pattern Explanation of cities

Urban Political Economic Pattern Explanation of cities

Creative Destruction

How to explain urban patterns

Developers, local government, major industry role in shaping urban area

Leveraging

Speculators

Zoning

Agglomeration

TIF

Impact of local vs distant corporation on urban area

Replacement birth rate