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Unit 6 Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
| Urban Hearths | areas generally associated with RIVER VALEYS in which seasonal floods and FERTILE SOIL aided the PRODUCTION of an agricultural surplus. |
| Urbanization | Movement of people from RURAL areas to CITIES |
| urban hierarchy | A RANKING of cities according to their SIZE and ECONOMIC functions. |
| world cities | A group of cities that form an INTERCONNECTED, internationally dominant system of GLOBAL CONTROL of FINANCE and COMMERCE. Alpha cities |
| rural | relating to farm areas and LIFE in the COUNTRY |
| suburban | An area that typically SURROUNDS the central CITY, is often residential, and is not as densely populated. |
| urban | relating to a CITY |
| Suburbanization | The process of population movement from cities to the RURAL-URBAN fringe. |
| White Flight | the move of WHITE CITY-DWELLERS to the suburbs to ESCAPE the influx of MINORITIES. |
| Reurbanization | when suburbanites RETURN to live in the CITY |
| Exurbanization | The migration of URBAN residents to RURAL environments |
| satellite city | when an established TOWN near a very large city GROWS into a INDEPENDENT CITY of the larger one |
| metropolitan area | a major population CENTER made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that SURROUND it Greater than 50,000 |
| Megacity | CITY with more than 10 MILLION people |
| Meta city | A CITY with a population over 20 MILLION |
| Megalopolis | VERY LARGE cities all CONNECTED |
| Borchert's Model | Created in 1960's to predict and explain the GROWTH of cities in four phases of TRANSPORTATION HISTORY. |
| stage 1 | the "SAIL-WAGON" era of 1790-1830 |
| stage 2 | the "IRON HORSE" era of 1830-1870 |
| stage 3 | the "STEEL RAIL" era of 1870-1920 |
| stage 4 | the current era of CAR and AIR TRAVEL that began after 1920. |
| infrastructure | Fundamental FUNCTIONAL and SYSTEMS serving a country, city, or area. |
| conurbation | a CONTINOUS, UNINTERUPTED EXTENDED urban area formed by the GROWING TOGETHER of Cities, formerly separate, expanding cities |
| rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the Nth LARGEST settlement is 1/n the POP. of the LARGEST settlement. |
| primate city | a city that DOMINATES a COUNTRY'S economy, CULTURE , and government and in which population is concentrated; usually the CAPITAL Largest city is at lest 2x bigger than the next |
| Gravity Model | A model which holds that the potential USE of a SERVICE at a particular location is DIRECTLY related to the # of PEOPLE in a location and INVERSELY related to the DISTANCE people must travel to reach the service |
| Central Place Theory | Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be FUNCTIONALY and SPATIALY DISTRIBUTED with respect to one another. |
| hinterlands | The SURROUNDING TRADE AREA of an URBAN AREA |
| range | The MAX DISTANCE people are WILLING to travel to use a SERVICE. |
| threshold | The MIN number of people needed to SUPPORT THE SERVICE |
| Forward Capital | A capital CITY placed in a remote or PERIPHERAL AREA for economic, strategic, or SYMBOLIC REASONS |
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