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AP Human Geography Human Urban and development

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Bid rent theory   show
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show a procerss by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices out of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood  
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Central business district   show
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show An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published in urbanized areas census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods  
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show the strength of an urban center in its capacity to attrac producers and consumers to its facilities a city's reach into the surrounding region  
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Centralization   show
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Central place theory   show
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Christaller Walter   show
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City   show
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show is the urban equivalent of a landscape  
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colonial city   show
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commercialization   show
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commuter Zone   show
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concentric zone model   show
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show net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries  
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show the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts  
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deindustrialization   show
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Economic base   show
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edge city   show
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Employment structure   show
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Entrepot   show
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Ethnic neighborhood   show
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Favela   show
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show single mothers with kids  
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Festival landscape   show
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show a settlement which acts as a link between two areas  
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Gentrification   show
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high tech corridors   show
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show literally "country behind" surrounding area served by an urban center.  
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Hydraulic civilization   show
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show originating in and naturally living, growing, or occurring in a region or country  
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show new building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development  
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informal sector   show
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infrastructure   show
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show The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, often minority  
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Invasion and succession   show
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show traveling from one suburb to another in going to from home to work  
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Medieval cities   show
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Megalopolis/conurbation   show
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Metropolitan area   show
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Multiple nuclei model   show
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Multiplier effect   show
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show a small social area within a city where residents share values and concerns and interact with one another on a daily basis  
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show a cluster of office buildings, usually located along an interstate often forming the nucleus of an edge city.  
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show The most accessible and colstly parcel of land in the central business district and therefore in the entire urbanized area  
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show A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents  
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show area where economic development in which service activities become relatively more important than goods production, professional and technical employment supersedes employment in agriculture and manufacturing  
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postmodern urban landscape   show
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primate city   show
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racial steering   show
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show In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely propportional to its rank in the hierarchy  
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redlining   show
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show a statement written into a property deed that restricts the use of the land in some way often used to prohibit certain groups of people from buying propery  
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show an economic model that depicts a city as a series of pie-shaped wedges.  
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show a measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population  
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settlement form   show
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shopping mall   show
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site/situation   show
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slum   show
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show the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships  
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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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street pattern(grid, dendritic; access, control)   show
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show a susidiary urban area surrounding and connnected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls.  
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show movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions  
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show landscapes that express the values, beliefs and meanings of a particular culture.  
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show a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards  
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show in central place theory the size of the population required to make provision of goods and services economically feasible.  
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town   show
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underclass   show
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show A situation in which a worker is employed, but not in the desired capacity  
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Urban growth rate   show
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show the region in which first cities were. The five urban hearths were: •Mesoamerica (200 BC) •Nile Valley (3200 BC) •Mesopotamia (3500 BC) •Indus Valley (2200 BC) •Huang Ho (1500 BC)  
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Urban heat island   show
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Urban hierarchy   show
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Uraban hydrology   show
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Urban morphology   show
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show A term with several connotations. the proportion of a country's pop. living in urban places. involves the movement of people ot and the clustering of people in towns and cities- also occurs when an expanding city absorbs the rural countryside  
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Urbanized population   show
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show dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy. Not the world's biggest city in terms of population or industrial output, but centers of strategic control of the world economy  
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show the inner city area around the CBD. It is a zone of mixed land uses, ranging from car parks and derelict buildings to slums, cafes and older houses, often converted to offices or industrial use.  
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Zoning   show
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show farmers  
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show Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion  
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show Higher wages and prices are found at the core while the lack of employment in the periphery keeps wages low there. The result may well be a balance of payments crisis at the periphery  
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show is the contact and interaction of one country to another  
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dependency theory   show
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show a structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development.  
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energy consumption   show
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foreign direct investment   show
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show the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female entities, extending from one's biological sex to, in humans, one's social role  
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Gross Domestic Product   show
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show total value of all goods and services produced by a country's economy in a given year. It includes all goods and services produced by corporations and individuals.  
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Humann Development Index   show
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Levels of development   show
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show The entrenchment of the colonial order, such as trade and investment under a new guise.  
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show is an attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country  
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purchasing power parity   show
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show He wrote in defense of free enterprise economics, particularly in developing nations. famous especially for writing the book The Stages of Economic Growth: A non-communist manifesto which became a classic text in several fields of social sciences  
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"Stages of Growth" model   show
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technology gap   show
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technology transfer   show
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Third world   show
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show is a view of the recent five centuries of world history, historical and current applications of some, but by no means all, tenets of Marxism as well as ideas by a range of theorists from Adam Smith to Max Weber, to studying international relations  
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agglomeration   show
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Barriadas   show
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