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Chapter 7

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ecumene   inhabited portion of the earth's surface  
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urban areas   high concentrations of people  
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suburbs   residential areas near cities  
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rural areas   low concentrations  
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settlement   place with a permanent population  
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urbanization   process of developing towns  
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percent urban   indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas  
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sub urbanization   the process of people moving to residential areas on the outskirts of cities  
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re urbanization   suburbanites return to live in the city  
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ex urbanization   move farther out into rural areas and work remotely  
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satellite city   town near a very large city grows into a city independent of the larger one  
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City states   consists of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages.  
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urban hearths   areas associated with river valleys, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, China, Mexico, and South America.  
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Metropolitan Statistical Areas   Geographic area that includes a central city and all of its immediately interacting countries at least 50,000 people  
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Megalopolis   when MSA's overlap, chain of connected cities  
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Micropolitan Statistical Area   includes areas and surrounding areas of 10,000 to 50,000 people, smaller that a metropolitan statistical area  
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cultural Diversity   what activities can be participated in and what people are located there  
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Preindustrial Cities   developed prior to the industrial age, similar characteristics, surrounded by agricultural production on the outside of the city  
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Streetcar suburbs   communities that grew up along rail lines  
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urban system   an interdependent set of cities within a region  
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gravity model   places that are larger and closer together will have a greater interaction than places that are smaller and farther away from each other  
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Rank-size rule   # largest city in any region will be 1/# the size of the largest city  
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primate city   largest city (Primate city) in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city  
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central place theory   Walter Christaller, 1933, explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region  
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central place   location where people go to receive goods and services  
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Threshold   the size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable  
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Range   the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods and services  
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megacities   worlds largest cities, more than 10 million people  
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World cities   exert influence far beyond their national boundaries, New York, Tokyo, London, and Paris  
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conurbation   merged into a single, uninterrupted urban area  
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social heterogeneity   the population of cities contain a great variety of people  
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Borchert's model   John Borchert, describes urban growth based on transportation technology  
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pedestrian cities   cities shaped by the distances people could walk  
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functional zonation   portions of an urban area have specific and distinct purposes  
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central business district   commercial heart of a city  
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concentric zone model   rings that surround the CBD, first zone is transition zone, next three are residential zones, greater distance from CBD = more expensive and costly homes  
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sector model   housing located near CBD, low medium and high income housing, sector for transportation edge to center  
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multiple nuclei model   functional zonation occurred around the centers, look at model image  
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peripheral model   suburban neighborhoods surround an inner city, served by nodes of commercial activity along a ring road  
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galactic city models   spread of U.S. cities outward from the CBD to the suburbs  
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edge cities   nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities  
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shantytowns   poorly built housing  
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favelas   neighborhoods where extreme poverty, homelessness, and lawlessness are common  
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basic economic base   brings money into a city and gives the city its primary function  
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nonbasic economic base   moves money within the city, does not take money from outside of the city  
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blockbusting   black families move into white neighborhoods and then white families sell their homes  
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redlining   outline an area and not lean money to African Americans in the area  
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gentrification   older locations are rebuild and renovated  
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suburbanization   centrifugal movement of people out of the urban areas to suburban areas  
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site   absolute location of a city, trade defense and religion  
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situation   relative location of a city  
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urban morphology   the layout of a city, its physical form and structure  
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commercialization   governments transform the central city to attract residents and tourists  
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planned communities   planned out from beginning to end  
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gated communities   surrounded by a gate, safe  
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invasion and succession   one social group gradually replaces another through filtering  
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census tracts   regions that function as the building blocks of a census  
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inner cities   regions just outside the CBD  
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underclass   people who face social hardships that contribute to their poverty  
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ghettos   areas of poverty occupied by a minority group  
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urban heat island   a portion of a city warmer than the surrounding regions  
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deindustrialization   companies move to other cheaper regions  
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centrality   The functional dominance of cities within an urban system  
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colonial city   wider streets,larger houses, and lower density  
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commuter zone   the fifth ring in the concentric zone model that is beyond the continuous built-up area of the city  
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counterurbanization   net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries  
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decentralization   activities are away from a central location or group  
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early cities   cities of the ancient world  
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emerging cities   city currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate  
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employment suture   how the workforce is divided up between the three main employment sectors - primary, secondary, and tertiary  
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ethnic neighborhood   a neighborhood in which the people who live in there and share physical, mental, and cultural traits  
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female- headed household   a household in which the most powerful person is a female  
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festival landscape   a landscape of cultural festivities  
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great cities   a city with a population of more then 1 million  
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high- tech corridors   thousands of high tech businesses and industries  
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hinterland   the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services  
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hydraulic civilization   people who grew up or live on/by water  
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indigenous city   a center of population, commerce, and culture that is native to a country  
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in-filling   the use of vacant land for further construction  
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informal sector   economic activity neither taxed or monitored by a government  
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infrastructure   the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area  
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lateral commuting   commuting between two suburbs  
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medieval cities   cities that existed during the time frame of the middle ages  
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multiplier effect   the expansion of the money supply  
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office park   an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together  
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peak land value intersection   land within a settlement with the greatest land value and commerce  
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postmodern urban landscape   Attempts to reconnect people to the place  
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racial steering   real estates guide prospective buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race  
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restrictive covenants   prevent property sale to a person of a particular race or religion  
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segregation   the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group  
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nucleated   a compact, closely packed settlement  
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dispersed   lower density of population and the wide spacing of individual homesteads  
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elongated   long and narrow in shape  
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shopping mall   mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers  
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slum   a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor  
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social structure   social organization based on established patterns of social interaction between different relationships  
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specialization   separation of tasks within a system  
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squatters   people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent  
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grid   streets are arranged in a grid-like fashion  
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dendritic   fewer streets, based on the amount of traffic each is intended to carry  
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access   provides access to a subdivision, housing project, or highway  
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control   allows highways or housing projects to be supervised  
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symbolic landscape   landscape that depicts symbols  
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tenement   An apartment building  
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town   an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city  
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underemployment   Employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities  
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urban growth rate   The rate at which an urban area grows  
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urban function   Services that are provided in a certain urban area  
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urban hierarchy   A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions.  
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urban hydrology   Study of water in Urban areas and how to treat it  
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urbanized population   Population that lives in Urban areas  
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zone in transition   area of mixed commercial and residential land uses surrounding the CBD  
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zoning   dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes  
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cityscapes   the urban equivalent of a landscape  
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