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Services and Settlements - Rural/Urban Settlements and Urbanization

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clustered rural settlements   an agricultural-based community in which several families live near each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings  
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circular clustered rural settlement   consists of a central open space surrounded by structures  
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Maasai people   sub-Saharan Africa, pastoral nomads who build circular settlements called kraal, livestock in the center and houses surround  
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kraal   circular settlements built by the Maasai people  
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linear clustered rural settlement   comprise buildings clustered along a road, river, or dike to facilitate communications  
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old clustered rural settlement pattern   central common surrounded by the church, school, and various houses  
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dispersed rural settlement   characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements  
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enclosure movement   in the UK between 1750 and 1850 - resulted in the consolidation of individually owned strips of land surrounding villages into large farms owned by single individuals  
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4 urban hearths   Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Indus River Valley  
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early consumer services   places to bury the dead, places for ceremonies and dwellings  
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early business services   places to store food and trade, officials set fair prices, kept record, and created currency  
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1st settlements   2500 BCE, trading center that provided govt, military protection, and other services - organized into city-states - places for families and manufacturing centers  
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Rome   empire’s center for administration, commerce, culture, and all other services - the world’s most populous city 2,000 years ago and may have been the first city to reach a half million inhabitants  
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feudal lords   gave residents charters of rights with which to establish independent cities in exchange for their military service  
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churches   the tallest and most elaborate structures  
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urbanization   the process by which the population of urban settlements grows  
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2 dimensions of urbanization   increase in % and number of people living in urban settlements  
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Louis Wirth   argued during the 1930s that an urban dweller follows a different way of life than does a rural dweller  
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3 characteristics of a city   large size, high population density, socially heterogeneous people  
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percent urban of developed country   79%  
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percent urban of developing country   50%  
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megacity   an urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people (Osaka, Moscow, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and Nagoya in developed countries)  
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metacity   has more than 20 million people (Tokyo, Seoul, and New York in developed countries)  
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London   1st city to exceed 5 million, around 1900  
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New York City   1st city to exceed 10 million, around 1940  
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Tokyo   current world's largest city  
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Jakarta, Indonesia   may become the world's largest city by 2030  
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