Questions: Diversified Urban Centres

1. What is meant by a hierarchy of urban services?

The size of a city will offer more goods or services.

2. Describe the elements of a diversified urban centre which are seen in the model
town of Adanac.
Hospital/high school/healthcare/railway centre/gristmill/clay deposits

3. What is the multiplier effect?

Total effect on the economy due to expansion or contraction. usually the result of
manufacturing growth or decline.

4. Explain how the multiplier effect would work when a new factory is built in a
town.
It provides income for many people that they now will spend at restaurants, etc.

5. How would the multiplier effect work when a factory closes down in a city?
People have less $ to spend, causing businesses to shut down.
Internet Activity
1. You have been given examples of the four types of specialized urban centres,
which can be found in Canada.
2. Complete the chart below by finding an example, on the Internet, of a
Canadian community, which fits each type of specialized urban centre.
3. Explain why the community you selected is an appropriate example of the
specialized urban centre in question.

Name of Type of Specialized Urban Explanation

Community Centre it represents

Manufacturing

Resource Development

Transportation

Services

4. Think about the town or city in which you live (or the town or city nearest to
you, if you live in a rural area.) Describe what major urban functions it has.
What evidence is there to support your answer?