AP human flash cards for unit 7
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| Agglomeration | a built up area consisting of central city and its surrounding suburbs
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| Barriadas | a neighborhood, usually a slum or lower class
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| Bid-rent Theory | explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the CBD
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| Blockbusting | – the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value
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| CBD | stands for central business district, location of skyscrapers and companies
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| Census Tract | these are govt. designated areas in cities that each have ~5,000 people, they often times correspond to neighborhoods
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| Centrality | – the strength of dominance of an urban center over its surrounding area, larger than the MSA or agglomeration
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| Centralization | the movement of people, capital, services, and govt. into the central city
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| Christaller, Walter | – he created the Central Place Theory, which explains how services are distributed and why there are distinct patterns in this distribution
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| City | centralized area with a mayor and local government, usually bigger than a town
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| Cityscapes | similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city’s skyline, which is the CBD).
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| Colonial City | cities founded by colonial powers, such as Mexico City by the Spanish
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| Commercialization | the process of the increasing importance of business
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| Concentric Zone Model | created by E.W. Burgess, city grows outwards from a central area
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| Counterurbanization | a net migration from urban to rural areas
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| Decentralization | the process of dispersing decision-making outwards from the center of authority
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| Deindustrialization | process of social and economic change caused by removal of industry
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| Early Cities | Cities of the ancient world (-3500 to -1200)
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| Economic base | Communities collection of basic industry
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| Edge city | A new concentration of business in suburban areas consisting of suburbs
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| Emerging cities | City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate
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| Employment structure | graph showing how primary secondary and tertiary sector jobs are separated.
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| Entrepot | Trading center where goods are exported and imported without cost
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| Ethnic neighborhood | A neighborhood with distinctive ethnic composition
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| Favela | A shantytown or slum, especially in Brazil
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| Female-headed household | A household dominated by a woman
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| Festival landscape | a landscape of cultural festivities
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| Gateway City | a settlement which acts as a link between two areas
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| Gender | a person’s sex
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| Gentrification | process in which low cost neighborhoods are renovated by middle class to increase property values.
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| Ghetto | A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background.
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| Globalization | Development of worldwide patterns of economic relationships
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