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Ecumene a variety of community types with a range of population densities
Rural areas with low concentrations of people (farms & villages)
Urban areas with high concentrations of people (cities)
Suburbs primarily residential areas near cities
Settlement a place with permanent human population
Urbanization the process of developing towns & cities
Percent Urban an indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities & towns as compared to those that live in rural areas
Site characteristics of the immediate location (physical features, climate, labor force, human structures)
Situation refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings & its connectivity to other places
City-State an urban center (the city), its surrounding area/territory, & agricultural villages
Urban health an area generally associated with defensible sites & river valleys; seasonal floods & fertile soils allow for agricultural surplus
Urban area defined as a central city plus the land developed for commercial, industrial, & residential purposes; includes surrounding suburbs
City a high-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries
Metropolitan Area (metro area) a collection of adjacent cities economically connected
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) a city that has at least 50,000 people in the county where it’s located; high degrees of social & economic connection
Micropolitan Statistical Area a city or cities with more than 10,000 but less than 50,000 inhabitants
Nodal Region a focal point in a matrix of connections
Social Heterogeneity the diversity of cities & other areas; having a greater variety of people
Time-space compression shortened relative distance between locations due to improved modes of transportation
Borchert’s Transportation Model a model made by John Borchert to describe urban growth based on transportation technology; is divided into 4 epochs
Pedestrian Cities cities shaped by the distances people could walk
Streetcar Suburbs communities that grew up along rail lines
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