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APHG U6 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Basic Industries | enterprises that produce goods or services for consumers outside the local settlement |
| Forward Thrust Capital | when a capital city is deliberately moved to achieve strategic, economic, or political goals |
| Market Area | the geographic zone a node is surrounded by in which customers are attracted |
| Non Basic Industries | enterprises that produce goods or services for consumers within the local community |
| Central Business District (CBD) | location where majority of consumer services are in a city or town |
| Gentrification | renovations conforming to middle-class preferences |
| Suburbanization | a population shifting from cities to suburbs |
| Urbanization | urban growth and development |
| Metropolitan Area | a city and its surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by that city |
| Urban Area | a city and its surrounding suburbs (urban cluster/urbanized area) |
| Boomburb | a suburb that has grown rapidly into a city with over 100,000 residents |
| Edge City | a type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with the typical amenities of an urban center (ECONOMIC) |
| Exurb | a fast growing community outside/on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents are closely connected to the central city and suburbs (RURAL) |
| Urban Sprawl | areas of poorly planned, low-density development surrounding a city |
| Primate City | the largest city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance |
| Range | the distance that someone is willing to travel for a good/service (in central place theory) |
| Threshold | the number of people needed to support a business (in central place theory) |
| Disamenity Zones | high poverty urban areas in a disadvantaged location containing steep slopes, flood-prone ground, rail lines, landfills, or industry |
| Squatter Settlement | an informal housing area beset with overcrowding and poverty that features temporary homes of scraps |
| Zoning | the process of dividing a city into zones where only certain land uses are permitted |
| Mixed Use Development | a single planned development designed to include multiple uses and spaces |
| Blockbusting | real estate agents would convince white property owners to sell their houses at below-market prices by stirring up concern that black families would soon move in |
| Eminent Domain | a government's right to take over privately owned property for public use/interest |
| Redlining | when a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhood's racial/ethnic makeup |
| Brownfield | abandoned and polluted industrial site in a central city or suburb |
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