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APHG Unit 7 Industrialization Barrons & Rubenstein

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show A location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another.  
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Bulk reducing industry   show
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Cottage industry   show
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show Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to perform repeatedly.  
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show A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods  
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show An industry for which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses.  
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show Factories built by u.s. companies in Mexico near the U.S. border, to take advantage of much cheaper labor costs in Mexico.  
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New international division of labor   show
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show Adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks.  
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Right to work state   show
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Site factors   show
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show The location of a place relative to other places. Situation factors Location factors related to the transporta¬tion of materials into and from a factory.  
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show A fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing  
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show A group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocs  
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Basic Industries   show
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Business services   show
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Central Bussiness District   show
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Central Place   show
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Central Place theory   show
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City State   show
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show A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.  
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Consumer Services   show
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show A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.  
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show A community's collection of basic industries.  
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Enclosure movement   show
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Gravity model   show
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Market area   show
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Nonbasic industries   show
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show services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers  
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Consumer Services   show
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show A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. (Population 2x)  
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show Services that primarily help people con¬duct business.  
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show The maximum distance people are will¬ing to travel to use a service.  
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Rank size rule   show
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Retail Services   show
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show An activity that fulfills a human Want or need and re-turns money to those who provide it.  
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show A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.  
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show The minimum number of people needed to support the service  
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Transportation and information services   show
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show Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.  
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Census tract   show
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show A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.  
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show A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States.  
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Density gradient   show
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show A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.  
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Filtering   show
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show A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.  
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show A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.  
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Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)   show
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Micropolitan statistical area   show
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Multiple nuclei model   show
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show A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.  
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Public housing   show
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Redlining   show
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show The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic  
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show A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD).  
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show Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.  
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show An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.  
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Underclass   show
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Urbanization   show
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show In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs.  
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show Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.  
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Zoning ordinance   show
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Action space   show
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Beaux arts   show
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Central business district   show
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Central place theory   show
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City Beautiful movement   show
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show Cities established by colonizing empires as administrative cen¬ters. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.  
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Concentric zone model   show
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show 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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show Cities in Europe that were mostly developed during the Medieval Period and that retain many of the same characteristics  
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Exurbanite   show
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Feudal city   show
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show Cities that, because of their geographic location, act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas.  
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Gentrification   show
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show A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources.  
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Hinterland   show
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show Period characterized by the rapid social and economic changes in manufacturing and agriculture that occurred in England during the late 18th century and rapidly diffused to other parts of the developed world.  
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Inner city decay   show
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show Cities in Muslim countries that owe their structure to their religious beliefs. (Mosques,open-air market,dead-end streets,courtyards surrounded by high walls)  
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Latin American cities   show
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show Cities that developed in Europe during the Medieval Period.(Narrow winding streets, high walls surrounding the city center for defense)  
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Megacities   show
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show metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large, sprawling urban complex.  
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show Within the United States, an urban area consisting of one or more whole county units, usually containing several urbanized areas, or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole.  
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show Point of view, wherein cities and buildings are thought to act like well-oiled machines, with little energy spent on frivolous details  
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show Type of urban form wherein cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place.  
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show Geographical centers of activity. A large city, such as Los Angeles, has numerous nodes.  
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show A reaction in architectural design to the feeling of sterile alienation that many people get from modern architecture. (uses older, historical styles and a sense of lightheartedness and eclec¬ticism. )  
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show A country's leading city, with a population that is dispropor¬tionately greater than other urban areas within the same country.  
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Rank-size rule   show
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Sector model   show
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Segregation   show
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Squatter settlements   show
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Suburb   show
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Urban growth boundary   show
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Urban revitalization   show
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Urban sprawl   show
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World City   show
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