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Aphugs Unit 7 vocab
Unit 7 Vocab APHuG
Term | Definition |
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Agglomeration | a built up area consisting of central city and suburbs |
Barriadas | Squatter settlements |
Bid-rent Theory | explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the CBD |
Blockbusting | the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value |
CBD (Central Buisness 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 |
Centrality | the strength of dominance of an urban center over its surrounding area |
Centralization | the movement of people, capital, services, and govt. into the central city |
Walter Christaller | created the Central Place Theory |
City | centralized area with a mayor and local government, usually bigger than a town |
Cityscapes | similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city’s skyline). |
Colonial City | cities founded by colonial powers |
Commercialization | the process of the increasing importance of business |
Concentric Zone Model | created by E.W. Burgess, city grows outwards from a central area |
Counterurbanization | a net migration from urban to rural areas |
Decentralization | 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 | neighborhood with distinctive ethnic composition |
Favela | A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil |
Female-headed household | household dominated by a woman |
Festival landscape | a landscape of cultural festivities |
Gateway City | settlement which acts as a link between two areas |
Gender | a person’s sex |
Gentrification | low cost neighborhoods are renovated by middle class to increase property values. |
Ghetto | 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 |