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AP HUG UNIT 6

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show the place where the settlement is located. Absolute location of a city Ex. on a hill or in a sheltered valley  
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Situation   show
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Urbanization   show
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Socioeconomic Stratification   show
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show agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of early cities.  
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Transportation   show
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show innovations in communication systems allowed businesses, and therefore cities, to grow.  
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show movement of people (typically farmers) from rural settlements to urban centers in search of jobs.  
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Redevelopment   show
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show 10 million inhabitants or more (Cairo, Mumbai, Beijing, Dhaka, Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto)  
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show 20 million inhabitants or more (Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, São Paulo, Mexico City)  
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Micropolitan Area   show
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show a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together  
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show a central city of at least 50,000 people and urban areas linked to it  
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show is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas grow.  
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show tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner  
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show nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities. (Not many people live here just for economy development)  
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show a district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs. Often found near farmland, beaches or mountains (Less housing density)  
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Boomburbs   show
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World City   show
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show Ranking urban settlements by: Population size and economic function (i.e. # of services provided)  
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show those activities designed to assist a person to travel from one place to another to obtain services or carry out life’s activities.  
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Communication Systems   show
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Business Services   show
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Rank-Size Rule   show
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show an urban area that dominates its country's economy, culture, and political affairs and is more than twice the population of the next largest city. Example: London, Paris, Bangkok  
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Christaller’s central place theory   show
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show a settlement that makes certain types of products and services available to consumers  
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show the # of people required to support businesses  
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show the distance people will travel to acquire a good  
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Low-Order central place functions   show
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High-Order central place functions   show
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show interaction of places based on their population, sizes, and distances between them.  
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Concentric-Zone Model   show
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Sector Model   show
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show was created by Chauncey Harris & Edward Ullman in 1945 for developed countries and large expanding cities.  
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show it consists of an inner city, surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas and tied together by transportation nodes (edge cities)  
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Latin American City Model   show
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African City Model   show
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show This model was developed in 1967 by T.G. McGee. McGee studied several cities in Southeast Asia and discovered that they shared certain aspects of land-use(CED NOTES FOR SIMILARITIES)  
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The bid rent theory   show
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Low Density Housing   show
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Medium Density Housing   show
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High Density Housing:   show
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Infiling:   show
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show urban planning that avoids urban sprawl and focuses on long term implications with sustainable design initiatives and guides development into more convenient patterns and into areas where infrastructure allows growth to be sustained over the long term.  
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New Urbanism   show
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Greenbelts   show
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Slow-Growth Cities   show
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show Racial segregation that happens by tradition,racists acts,etc rather than by legal requirement  
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Positive of Urban Sustainability   show
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show Increased housing costs, possible de facto segregation, and potential loss of historical or place character.  
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Redlining   show
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show the practice of persuading owners to sell property cheaply because of the fear of people of another ethnic or social group moving into the neighborhood, and then profiting by reselling at a higher price.  
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Affordable Housing:   show
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show contributing factors include lack of job availability, less access to quality schools, and real or perceived lack of opportunity  
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Environmental injustice   show
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Disamenity Zones   show
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show areas with lack of jobs, declining land values and falling demand that cause people to leave and businesses to close  
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Squatter settlements   show
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Zone of Abandonment (Disamenity Zone)   show
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show system regulating the rights to ownership and control and usage of land  
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show planning ordinances that provide affordable housing to people with low to moderate incomes  
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Local Food Movements   show
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show the redevelopment of areas within an urban area, typically neighborhoods in economic decline  
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show the restoration of deteriorated urban areas by wealthier people who move into, renovate, and restore housing and sometimes businesses.  
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show New employment opportunities, improved housing, improved infrastructure, and increase in visitors/tourism  
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Gentrification Negatives   show
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Urban sustainability   show
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show the spreading of developments (such as housing developments and shopping centers) into suburban or rural areas.  
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show An Area that is contaminated and we aren't able to farm or build on it.  
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Ecological Footprint   show
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Responses to the Challenges of Urban Sustainability   show
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show Dominant City in Terms of Economic Standing EX: London,New York, Tokyo  
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show An extended Conurban Area, Consisting of Several Cities EX:BosNYwash (the Area from BOSTON to NEW YORK to WASHINGTON DC) (Makes one major metropolitan area)  
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show Primary Regional Nodes in the Global Economy (Similar to World Cities) (Important cities) EX:New York, London, Hong Kong, Sydney  
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Beta City   show
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Gamma City   show
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Metropolitan area/cities   show
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Gravity Model pt 2   show
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