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AP Human Geography Human Urban and development

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show is a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance from the Central Business District (CBD) decreases  
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Blockbusting   show
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Central business district   show
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Census tract   show
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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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show theory proposed by Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatialy distributed with respects to one another  
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Christaller Walter   show
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show Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as acenter of politics, culture and economics  
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show is the urban equivalent of a landscape  
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show cities arose in societies that fell under the domination of Europe and North America in the early expansion of the capitalist world system  
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commercialization   show
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show a structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-0use rings arranged around a common center  
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counterurbanization   show
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show the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts  
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show is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial  
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Economic base   show
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edge city   show
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show the percentage of people employed in each of the four major employment sectors  
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show a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC"  
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show typically situated in a largerr metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.  
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show is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil.  
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Female headed household   show
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show a landscape of cultural festivities  
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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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show The basic structure of services installations and facilities needed to support industrial agricultural and other economic development included are transport and communications along with water power and other public utilities  
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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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show the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer then sequence: a following of one thing after another in time  
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Lateral commuting   show
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Medieval cities   show
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show term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are formingin diverse parts of the world. "M" to refer to the Boston to Washington corridor.lowercase "m" as a synoym for conurbation  
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show In the U.S. a large functionally integrated settlement area comprising one or more whole county units and usually containing several urbanized areas it operates as a coherent economic whole  
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show The postulate that large cities develop by peripheral spread not from one central business district but from several nodes of growth, each of pecialized use. The separately expanding use districts eventually coalesce at their margins.  
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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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Office park   show
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Peak land value intersection   show
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show A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents  
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Postindustrial city   show
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postmodern urban landscape   show
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show a country's largest city ranking atop the urban hierachy  
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racial steering   show
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rank-size rule   show
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show a discriminatory real estate practive in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. name from the red lines depicted on cadastral maps  
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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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segregation   show
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show The spatial arrangements of buildings, roads, towns and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area.  
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shopping mall   show
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site/situation   show
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show A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor  
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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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squatter settlement   show
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street pattern(grid, dendritic; access, control)   show
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suburb   show
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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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tenement   show
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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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show a group in society prevented from participation in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characterisitics.  
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show A situation in which a worker is employed, but not in the desired capacity  
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show which is the process by which there is an increase in proportion of a population living in places classified as urban  
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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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show Study of the effects of urban conditions on rainfall–runoff relationships  
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show the study of the physical form and structure of urban places.  
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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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World city   show
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Zone in transition   show
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Zoning   show
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agricultural labor force   show
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calorie consumption   show
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core-periphery model   show
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show is the contact and interaction of one country to another  
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show a strucuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. political and economic relations between countries have controlled and limit the extent to which regions can develop  
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development   show
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show investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)  
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gender   show
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Gross Domestic Product   show
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Gross national product   show
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show an indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the UN combing incme literacy educatio and life expectancy  
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show per capita levels of income, the structure of the economy, and various social indicators are typically used as measures for determining whether countries are developing or developed.  
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neocolonialism   show
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Physical quality of life index   show
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show The theory that, in the long run, identical products and services in different countries  
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Rostow, W. W.   show
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"Stages of Growth" model   show
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show The presence in a country of a technology that other countries do not have, so that it can produce and export a good whose cost might otherwise be higher than abroad  
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show The sharing of technological information through education and training; The use of a concept or product from one technology to solve a problem in an unrelated one  
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Third world   show
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World systems theory   show
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show process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close poximity because they share skilled labor pools and technological and finacial amenities  
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show Squatter settlements or shantytowns that surround Lima and other urban centers. Since the late 1960s, these settlements have been also known as pueblos jóvenes (young towns  
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