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| show | the downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems coverage
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| show | cities that were of that retain many of the same characteristics such as extreme density of development with narrow buildings and winding roads; church centered and high walls around the city
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| show | person who haas left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas
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| show | cities that arose during the Middle Ages and that actually represent a time of relative stagnation in urban growth
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| show | the trend of middle- and upper income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods
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| show | the market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves
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| show | those parts of large urban areas that lose significant portions of their populations as a result of change in industry or migration to suburbs. Because of these changes, the inner city loses its tax base and becomes a center of poverty
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| show | cities developed in Europe during the Medieval Period and that contains such unique features as extreme density of development with narrow buildings and winding streets, an ornate church that is prominently marks the city center
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| show | several, metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large, sprawling urban complex
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| show | within the US, an urban area consisting of one or more whole county units, usually containing several urbanized, areas, or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole
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| show | type of urban form wherein cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place
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| show | geographical centers activity. A large city, such as Los Angeles, has numerous nodes
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| show | a country's leading city, with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country
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| show | rule that states that the population of any given town should be inversely proportional to its rank in the country's hierarchy when the distribution of cities according to their sizes follows a certain pattern
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| show | the process that results from suburbanization when affluent individuals leave the city center for homogenous suburban neighborhoods
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| show | residential communities, located outside of city centers, that are usually relatively homogenous in terms of population
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| show | the process of expansive suburban development over large areas spreading out from a city, in which the automobile provides the primary source of transportation
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| show | centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce
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| show | Also known as the “Zone of Transition”
Often contains factories, warehouses, rail yards, and port facilities.
It is low density commercial space.
After de-industrialization, many of these areas are now being rebuilt as festival spaces!
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| show | These are professional class suburbs (white-collar neighborhoods).
These areas are low-density residential spaces.
Really took off in the post WW II era. (Suburbanization)
Traditionally dominated by WASPS.
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| show | Also known as country estates or Exurbs
These are generally very low residential areas.
This an area of wealthy people who own large tracts of land outside the city.
Today, these sections of the city play a major role in suburban sprawl.
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| show | The maximum distance that people are willing to travel to gain access to a service.
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| show | A place's relationship with other locations or it's relative location.
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