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Aphg 6.2-6.3 vocab

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The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities Suburbanization
The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city and occurs for numerous reasons Sprawl
Developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the city’s built area Leap-frog development
Rapidly growing communities, have a total population of over 100,000 people and are not the largest city in the metro area Boomburbs/boomburgs
Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of larger cities Edge cities
The counter-flow of urban residents leaving cities Counter-urbanization
The prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs Exurbs
Suburbanites returning to live in the city Reurbanization
Have a population of more that 10 million people Megacities
A continuous urban area with a population grater than 20 million people Metacities
Goes back to the early 1900s and describes a chain of connected cities Megalopolis
An uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs, and cities Conurbation
Places that exert influence beyond there national boundaries World cities/ global cities
Ranking, based on influence or population size Urban hierarchy
Command centers on a regional and occasionally national level Nodal cities
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