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unit 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Agglomeration | a built up area consisting of central city and its surrounding suburbs |
| barriadas | a neighborhood, usually a slum or lower class |
| bid-rent theory | explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the CBD (explains the concentric zone model and why different levels of development are located at certain distances from the central city) |
| blockbusting | the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value |
| CBD | stands for central business district, location of skyscrapers and companies |
| census tract | – these are govt. designated areas in cities that each have ~5,000 people, they often times correspond to neighborhoods (data in census tracts is used to analyze urban patterns such as gentrification or white flight) |
| centrality | the strength of dominance of an urban center over its surrounding area, larger than the MSA or agglomeration |
| centralization | the movement of people, capital, services, and govt. into the central city |
| christaller, walter | – he created the Central Place Theory, which explains how services are distributed and why there are distinct patterns in this distribution |
| city | centralized area with a mayor and local government, usually bigger than a town (cities started in the Greek/Roman times, more and more people live in cities, especially in LDC’s) |
| cityscapes | similar to a landscape, yet of a city |
| colonial city | cities founded by colonial powers, such as Mexico City by the Spanish |
| commercialization | the process of the increasing importance of business |
| concentric zone model | created by E.W. Burgess, city grows outwards from a central area |
| counterurbaniation | a net migration from urban to rural areas |
| decentrialization | the process of dispersing decision-making outwards from the center of authority |
| deindustrialization | process of social and economic change caused by removal of industry |
| early cities | Cities of the ancient world |
| economic base | communities collection of basic industry |
| edge city | a new concentration of business in suburban areas consisting of suburbs |
| emerging cities | city currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate |
| employment structure | graph showing how primary, secondary, and tertiary sector jobs are separated. |
| entrepot | trading center where goods are exported and imported without cost |
| ethnic neighborhood | a neighborhood with distinctive ethnic composition |
| favela | a shantytown or slum, especially in brazil |
| female-headed household | a household dominated by a woman |
| festival landscape | a landscape of cultural festivities |
| gateway city | a settlement which acts as a link between two areas |
| gender | a persons sex |
| gentrification | process in which low cost neighborhoods are renovated by middle class to increase property values |
| ghetto | a usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background |
| globalization | development of worldwide patterns of economic relationships |
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