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Chapter 7

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show inhabited portion of the earth's surface  
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show high concentrations of people  
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suburbs   show
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rural areas   show
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settlement   show
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show process of developing towns  
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show 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   show
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re urbanization   show
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show move farther out into rural areas and work remotely  
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show town near a very large city grows into a city independent of the larger one  
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City states   show
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show areas associated with river valleys, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan, China, Mexico, and South America.  
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Metropolitan Statistical Areas   show
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show when MSA's overlap, chain of connected cities  
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show includes areas and surrounding areas of 10,000 to 50,000 people, smaller that a metropolitan statistical area  
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cultural Diversity   show
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show developed prior to the industrial age, similar characteristics, surrounded by agricultural production on the outside of the city  
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show communities that grew up along rail lines  
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urban system   show
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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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show location where people go to receive goods and services  
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Threshold   show
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Range   show
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show worlds largest cities, more than 10 million people  
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show exert influence far beyond their national boundaries, New York, Tokyo, London, and Paris  
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conurbation   show
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show the population of cities contain a great variety of people  
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Borchert's model   show
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pedestrian cities   show
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show portions of an urban area have specific and distinct purposes  
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central business district   show
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show 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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show housing located near CBD, low medium and high income housing, sector for transportation edge to center  
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show functional zonation occurred around the centers, look at model image  
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peripheral model   show
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galactic city models   show
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edge cities   show
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shantytowns   show
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show neighborhoods where extreme poverty, homelessness, and lawlessness are common  
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show brings money into a city and gives the city its primary function  
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nonbasic economic base   show
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show black families move into white neighborhoods and then white families sell their homes  
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redlining   show
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gentrification   show
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suburbanization   show
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site   show
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show relative location of a city  
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show the layout of a city, its physical form and structure  
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commercialization   show
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planned communities   show
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gated communities   show
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show one social group gradually replaces another through filtering  
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show regions that function as the building blocks of a census  
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inner cities   show
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show people who face social hardships that contribute to their poverty  
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show areas of poverty occupied by a minority group  
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urban heat island   show
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show companies move to other cheaper regions  
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centrality   show
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colonial city   show
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show the fifth ring in the concentric zone model that is beyond the continuous built-up area of the city  
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counterurbanization   show
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decentralization   show
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early cities   show
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show city currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate  
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employment suture   show
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ethnic neighborhood   show
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show a household in which the most powerful person is a female  
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show a landscape of cultural festivities  
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show a city with a population of more then 1 million  
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high- tech corridors   show
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show the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services  
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show people who grew up or live on/by water  
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show a center of population, commerce, and culture that is native to a country  
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show the use of vacant land for further construction  
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show economic activity neither taxed or monitored by a government  
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infrastructure   show
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lateral commuting   show
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medieval cities   show
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show the expansion of the money supply  
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office park   show
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show land within a settlement with the greatest land value and commerce  
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postmodern urban landscape   show
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racial steering   show
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restrictive covenants   show
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segregation   show
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nucleated   show
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dispersed   show
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show long and narrow in shape  
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shopping mall   show
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slum   show
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show social organization based on established patterns of social interaction between different relationships  
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show separation of tasks within a system  
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squatters   show
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grid   show
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show fewer streets, based on the amount of traffic each is intended to carry  
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access   show
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control   show
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show landscape that depicts symbols  
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tenement   show
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town   show
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show Employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities  
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show The rate at which an urban area grows  
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urban function   show
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show A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions.  
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urban hydrology   show
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show Population that lives in Urban areas  
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zone in transition   show
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zoning   show
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cityscapes   show
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