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Unit 6 Review
unit 6 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| urbanization | the process by which people live and are employed in a city |
| site | the physical character of a place; what is found at the location and why is it significant |
| situation | the location of a place relative to other places |
| urban hearth | the rate at which an urban area grows |
| metropolitan area | all the areas surrounding a city that can be said to have a high-level of economic or social integration with the city |
| nodal region | an area organized around a central focal point or node |
| borchert's transportation model | focuses on the development of cities in relation to the development of transportation and communication |
| suburbanization | the growth of cities outside of an urban area |
| boomburbs | rapidly growing (double-digit growth) suburban cities with a population greater than 100,000 |
| edge cities | an urban area with a large suburban residential and business area surrounding |
| exurbs | residential, prosperous, but rural areas beyond the suburbs |
| megacities | a city that has a very large, and growing, population |
| metacities | urban areas with over 20 million people and are ranked by population size |
| megalopolis | formed when urban expansion results in an overlap in development by cities in close proximity to one another, resulting in a network of high-density human settlements |
| world cities | dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy |
| nodal cities | the area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
| rank-size rule | a population that says that the rank of a city's population within a country will be approximately the largest city's population divided by the rank of the city in question |
| primate cities | a city that functions as by far the largest city in the country it inhabits |
| gravity model | holds that the interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another |
| christaller's central place theory | based on his idea that settlements only existed to function as "central places" to provide service for the surrounding area |
| hexagonal hitherlands | a term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center |
| threshold | the minimum number of people needed for a business to operate |
| range | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to get a product or service |
| functional zonation | the division of a city into different regions or zones (e.g. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions |
| industrial/commercial zone | an area where industrial operations occupy a relatively high percentage of space and there is also a generally high level of export of manufactured industrial trades and crafts |
| residential zones | housing where people live; takes up the most space in a city |
| burgess concentric zone model | divided into concentric circles expanding from downtown to the suburbs |
| the hoyt sector model | suggests that people will live in the different sectors based on income levels |
| the harris and ullman multiple-nuclei model | asserted that the central business district (cbd) was no longer the only center of an urban area or city |
| the galactic city model | a city with growth independent of the cbd that is traditionally connected to the central city by means of an arterial highway or interstate |
| griffin-ford model (latin american model) | combines elements of latin american culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones |
| shantytowns | unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard |
| favelas | a slum or shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country's large cities, especially rio de janerio and sao paulo |
| disamenity zones | the very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to city services (amenities) and are controlled by gangs and drugs |
| african cities model | a generalized diagram of an urban area in sub-saharan africa that contains pre-colonial, european colonial, and post-colonial elements and is or was segregated by race |
| squatter settlements | an area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures |
| mcgee model (southeast asia model) | a model showing similar land-use patterns among the medium-sized cities of southeast asia |
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