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AP Human Geography Vocab.

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City   show
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show The transformation of societies from agriculture villages to permanently settled cities, which occurred independently in five separate hearths.  
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show Region in southwest Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE.  
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Nile River Valley   show
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Indus River Valley   show
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Huang He and Wei Valleys   show
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show Region in central America where the first urban revolution occurred around 200 BCE.  
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show The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure.  
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Functional Zonation   show
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Site   show
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Situation   show
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show The upper, fortified part of an ancient Greek city. Commonly a religious site.  
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show Observed statistical relationship that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. For example, second largest city is half the population of largest city.  
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Primate City   show
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show Walter Christaller’s theory that the size and locations of cities, towns, and villages are logically and regularly distributed.  
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Hinterland   show
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Central Business District (CBD)   show
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show Urban area that is not suburban. Generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by suburbs.  
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show A built-up residential and shopping district connected to a central city by major transportation routes.  
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Suburbanization   show
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Concentric Zone Model (Burgess)   show
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Sector Model (Hoyt)   show
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Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris and Ullman)   show
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Edge Cities   show
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show Modern city in which the old downtown plays the role of a festival or recreational area.  
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Latin America City Model (Griffin-Ford/New Ford)   show
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Disamenity Sector   show
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African City Model (DeBlij)   show
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show Model of Southeast Asian cities showing a city with an old colonial port zone surrounded by a large commercial district and no formal CBD. Designed to help see the layers of history built in cities in Southeast Asia.  
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show Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed.  
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Redlining Part 1   show
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Blockbusting Part 1   show
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White Flight   show
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Gentrification   show
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Teardowns   show
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show Large homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs.  
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show The expansion of low density urban areas around a city. New urbanism a modern approach to planning and developing cities and communities that values walkability, attracting diverse incomes, and access to public spaces.  
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show Development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.  
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show Residential neighborhoods where access is controlled in order to define exclusive space and deter movement of people and traffic through the neighborhood.  
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show How cities shape and are shaped by geopolitical processes at national, regional and global scales.  
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Megacity   show
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show Manufacturing conducted in slums, typically relying on intensive hand labor and low-cost machines.  
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show Portion of the economy that is not taxed or regulated by government. Goods and services are exchanged based on barter or cash systems, and earnings are not reported to government.  
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show Widely dispersed industrial parks, shopping centers, high-tech industrial spaces, edge-city downtowns, and industrial suburbs are the new centers of economic activity.  
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Redlining Part 2   show
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show Real estate agents profit through the rapid buying and selling of properties.  
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