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PHHS - APHUG Unit 7
PHHS - APHUG: Important vocab for Unit 7 - Cities and Urban Land Use
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| world's largest metropolitan area | Tokyo |
| rural settlement pattern where people live with large spaces in between one another | dispersed |
| rural settlement paterrn where people live with small spaces in between one another | clustered |
| urban location close to raw materials | resource node |
| urban location close to transportation routes | transportation node |
| the natural, physical characteristics that describe a place | site |
| the location of a place relative to another location | situation |
| concept of providing goods and servies | urban function |
| the series of central places starting with hamlets, and increasing in size, all the way up to megacities | urban hierarchy |
| service areas that surrounds cities | hinterlands |
| urban model that describes a city as being divided into circular sections inside of one another | Concentric Zone Model |
| founder of the Concentric Zone Model | Ernest Burgess, 1920s |
| urban model that describes a city as being divided into wedges that extend out from the city center, towards the city periphery | Sector Model |
| founder of the Sector Model | Homer Hoyt, 1930s |
| urban model that describes a city that has more than one CBD | Multiple Nuclei Model |
| founders of the Multiple Nuclei Model | Harris and Ullman, 1940s |
| urban model that describes a city with a service-based economy | Galactic City Model |
| urban model that describes a colonial-era city in Central or South America | Latin American City Model |
| Theory that urban areas in the urban hierarchy will each have an interlocking, hexagonal-shaped hinterland corresponding to the place's size. The hinterlands of all urban places in the urban hierarchy are then superimposed to form the model. | Central Place Theory |
| created Central Place Theory | Walter Christaller |
| low-density areas at the periphery of cities where land use is disaggregated | surburbs |
| suburbs grew rapidly after this major conflict | World War II |
| the encroachment of suburbs onto previously undeveloped land | surburban sprawl |
| the movement of predominantly white Americans from the inner-cities to suburbs in the 1950s and 1960s | white flight |
| Surburban areas that have become so built-up that they are almost cities in their own right. Have large amounts of retail/office space, no identified city government, and lack of cultural amenities. | edge cities |
| neighborhood with only one cultural group present | ethnic neighborhood |
| refusal of banks to grant loans to people living in certain neighborhoods | redlining |
| any instance where race affects how a potential homebuyer is treated | racial steering |
| a form of racial steering where a black family would be sold a home in a white neighborhood in hopes of encouraging the other families in the neighborhood to sell their homes | blockbusting |
| community laws created to prevent the sale of homes to certain demographic groups | restrictive covenants |
| the process of reinvesting in poorer, run-down urban neighborhboods | gentrification |
| the largest city in a country that also meets rank-size rule requirements | primate city |
| a city that is the center of international banking and commerce | world city |
| city with a population of over 10 million people | megacity |
| two or more cities that have grown so large that they have merged together over time | megalopolis |
| a city established before the start of the Renaissance in Europe (1400) | medieval city |
| a city in a former colony that was the center of trade, or colonial administration | colonial city |
| a city located on a river at the point where up-river travel is no longer possible; often important break-of-bulk points | fall-line city |
| important point of entry for immigrants to a country | gateway city |
| profitable port city due to goods being imported, then exported at higher prices | entrepot |
| concept of cities being able to maintain acceptable levels of pollution and funding | urban sustainability |
| the concept of cities integrating different activities in the same spaces (for example, through multi-use buildings) | New Urbanism |
| CBD | central business district |
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