Words from learning objective 6.1-6.3
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| urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
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| suburbanization | Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.
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| site | The physical character of a place
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| situation | the location of a place relative to other places
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| megacities | cities with more than 10 million people
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| metacity | A city with a population over 20 million
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| edge cities | cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment
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| urban sprawl | the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions
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| exurbs | communities that arise farther out than the suburbs and are typically populated by residents of high socioeconomic status
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| world city (global city) | a city that functions as a service center of the world economy
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| boomburgs | rapidly growing suburbs
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| urban hierarchy | A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions.
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| Central Business District | The central location where the majority of consumer services are located in a city or town (DOWN TOWN)
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