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hgapvocab1feb25
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A relatively large, densely populated settlement with a much larger population than rural towns and villages; cities serve as important commercial, governmental, and cultural hubs for their surrounding regions | city |
| Relating to a city | urban |
| Crop yields that are sufficient to feed more people than the farmer and his or her family | Agricultural surplus |
| The structuring of society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (for instance, a government or ruling class) that exercise control over goods and people | socioeconomic stratification |
| The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities | First urban revolution |
| Regions in which the world’s first cities evolved | Urban Hearth Areas |
| An absolute location of a place on Earth | site |
| The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places | Situation |
| An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than owned and run by the state | capitalism |
| An economic and political system in which all property is publicly owned and managed | Communism |
| A settlement outside of a city with streetcar lines; the streetcars take residents into and out of the city easily | Streetcar suburb |
| The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth | Second urban revolution |
| A set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times | Redevelopment |
| A very large and densely populated city, particularly the capital or major city of a country or region | Metropolis |
| Any self-governing place in the United States that contains at least 2500 people | Urban area |
| In the United States, an urban area with 50,000 people or more | Urbanized area |
| In the United States, an urban area with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants | Urban cluster |
| In the United States, a region with at least one urbanized area as its core | Metropolitan Statistical area |
| In the United States, a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people as its cores | Micropolitan statistical area |
| A populated area on the outskirts of a city | Suburb |
| The percentage of a nation’s population living in towns and cities | Urbanization rate |
| The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city | suburbanization |
| The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner | Sprawl |
| Cities whose size and shape are dictated by and almost require individual automobile ownership | Automobile cities |
| In an urban context, to move business operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs | Decentralize |
| A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or central business district | edge city |
| A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government | Boomburb (Boomburg) |
| The building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on vacant or underused parcels in already developed areas | Infill development |
| A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families | Exurb |
| A world center of trade, finance, information, and migration | World city |
| Privately governed and highly secure residential area within the bounds of a city; often has a fence or a gate surrounding it | Gated community |
| A set of interdependent cities or urban places connected by networks | Urban system |
| A ranking of cities, with the largest and most powerful cities at the top of the hierarchy | Urban hierarchy |
| The population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy | Rank-size rule |
| A city that is much larger than any other city in the country and that dominates the country’s economic, political, and cultural life | Primate city |
| A model, developed by Walter Christaller, that attempts to understand why cities are located where they are | Central Place theory |
| A settlement that makes certain types of products and services available to consumers | Central place |
| In central place theory, the number of people required to support businesses | Threshold |
| In central place theory, the distance people will travel to acquire a good | range |
| The idea that the closer two places are, the more they will influence each other | Gravity model |
| A model of a city’s internal organization developed by E. W. Burgess that shows rings of factory production and different residential zones radiating outward from a central business district | concentric zone model |
| A model of a city’s internal organization, developed by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman, showing residential districts organized around several nodes (nuclei) rather than one central business district | Multiple-nuclei model |
| A model of a city’s internal organization, developed by Homer Hoyt, that focuses on transportation and communication as the drivers of the city’s layout | Hoyt model (Sector model) |
| A model of a city’s internal organization in which the central business district remains central, but multiple shopping areas, office parks, and industrial districts are scattered throughout the surrounding suburbs and linked by metropolitan expressway sy | Galactic city model (Peripheral model) |
| A model of the internal structure of the Latin American city developed by Ernst Griffin and Larry Ford | Griffin ford model |
| The displacement of lower-income residents by higher-income residents as an area or neighborhood improves | gentrification |
| The general impression of the estimated number of people present in a given area | perceived density |
| Laws that dictate how land can be used | zoning regulation |
| Occurs when city revenues cannot keep up with increasing demands for city services and expenditures on decaying urban infrastructure | Fiscal Squeeze |
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vasundhara.varadarajan