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Chapter Nine Vocab
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city | A large settlement of people with an extensive built environment that functions as a center of politics, culture, and economics. |
first urban revolution | The transformation of societies from agriculture villages to permanently settled cities, which occurred independently in five separate hearths. |
mesopotamia | Region in southwest Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE. |
nile river valley | Region along the Nile River in North Africa where the first urban revolution occurred 3200 BCE. |
indus river valley | Region in South Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE. |
huang he and wei valleys | Region in China where the first urban revolution occurred around 1500 BCE. |
mesoamerica | Region in central America where the first urban revolution occurred around 200 BCE. |
urban morphology | The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure. |
functional zonation | Division of a city into different regions (e.g., residential or industrial) by use or purpose (e.g., housing or manufacturing). |
site | Physical attributes of the location of a human settlement - for example, at the head of navigation of a river or at a certain elevation. |
situation | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context. |
acropolis | The upper, fortified part of an ancient Greek city. Commonly a religious site. |
rank-size rule | Observed statistical relationship that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. For example, second largest city is half the population of largest city. |
primate city | The lead city in a country in terms of size and influence. |
central place theory | Walter Christaller’s theory that the size and locations of cities, towns, and villages are logically and regularly distributed. |
hinterland | An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port. |
central business district (cbd) | The zone of a city where businesses cluster and around which a city and its infrastructure are typically built. |
central city | Urban area that is not suburban. Generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by suburbs. |
suburb | A built-up residential and shopping district connected to a central city by major transportation routes. |
suburbanization | Transformation of farmland and small towns outside of an urban area into suburbs. |
concentric zone model (burgess) | Urban model that explains the distribution of social groups around a central business district (CBD) using 5 concentric zones with the newest built on the outskirts. Created by Ernest Burgess in 1925 based on Chicago, United States. |
sector model (hoyt) | A structural model of the American city centered on a central business district with distinct areas of manufacturing and residences extending in wedge-shaped zones from the CBD (like pieces of pie). |
multiple nuclei model (harris and ullman) | Layout of American cities, including a central business district (CBD) and suburban business districts that each serve as nuclei around which businesses and residences cluster. |
edge cities | Large urban areas on the outskirts of major cities, typically found on major roads; characterized by extensive space for offices and retail, and few residential areas. |
galactic city model | model represent modern cities wherein old downtown plays role of festival/recreational area, + widely dispersed industrial parks, shopping centers, hightech industrial spaces, edgecity downtowns, + industrial suburbs are new centers of economic activity |
latin american city model (griffin-ford/new ford) | Model of Latin American cities showing central plazas and wide streets commonly designed by Spanish colonizers. Designed to help see the layers of history built in cities in Latin America. |
disamenity sector | Residential zone where lowest income residents in the city live, especially in the Latin American city model. Often built on unstable or undesirable land. |
african city model (deblij) | Model of African cities showing how colonial cities were often built around African cities. The central city has three CBDs: traditional, informal, and colonial. Designed to help see the layers of history in cities in Africa. |
southeast asia city model (mcghee) | Model of Southeast Asian cities showing a city with an old colonial port zone surrounded by a large commercial district and no formal CBD. Designed to help see the layers of history built in cities in Southeast Asia. |
zoning laws | Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed. |
redlining | Discriminatory real estate practice (now illegal) prevents minorities from getting loans to purchase homes/property in predominantly white neighborhoods;practice derived name from red lines drawn on cadastral maps used by real estate agents + developers. |
blockbusting | Rapidly changing racial/class composition of neighborhood occurs when real estate agents persuade residents to sell homes bc of fear that another race/class people moving in neighborhood;real estate agents profit through rapid buying + selling properties |
white flight | Movement of whites from the city and adjacent neighborhoods to outlying suburbs in response to a growth in the number of residents who are a different race. Common in U.S. cities in response to blockbusting. |
gentrification | Renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle- to upper-class neighborhood, which results in driving up property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents. |
teardowns | Homes bought in suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with much larger homes, often referred to as McMansions. |
mcmansions | Large homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs. |
urban sprawl | The expansion of low density urban areas around a city. |
new urbanism | A modern approach to planning and developing cities and communities that values walkability, attracting diverse incomes, and access to public spaces. |
gated communities | Residential neighborhood where access is controlled in order to define exclusive space and deter movement of people and traffic through the neighborhood. |
urban geopolitics | How cities shape and are shaped by geopolitical processes at national, regional and global scales. |
megacity | A large city with more than 10 million people. |
hutment factories | Manufacturing conducted in slums, typically relying on intensive hand labor and low-cost machines. |
informal economy | Portion of the economy that is not taxed or regulated by government. Goods and services are exchanged based on barter or cash systems, and earnings are not reported to government. |