Cities and Urban Land Use Vocabulary
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| A process by which real estate agents convince white owners to sell their houses is | show 🗑
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| By analyzing these 5,000 people size neighborhoods, governments and private businesses can see patterns of ethnicity and wealth. | show 🗑
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| show | Hinterland
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| show | Entrepot
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| show | Rank-size Rule
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| The ________ shows the patter of different types of urban activities, maintaining that different types of services and living conditions move outward in a circular pattern from the downtown area. | show 🗑
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| The ________ explains how far people will travel and the type of people necessary to sustain a type of service. It is constructed using interlocking and overlapping hexagons. | show 🗑
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| show | Urban Renewel in the Economic Enterprise Zone
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| The __________ of the US shows that the largest job growth has been in the tertiary sector since 1975. | show 🗑
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| Revitalization projects have caused a ___________ of downtown areas that originally housed low income families, but now young urban professionals are moving in. | show 🗑
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| Stands for central business district, location of skyscrapers and companies (would always be the center of the 3 urban models, many people commute, few actually live there) | show 🗑
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| show | Centralization
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| show | Deindustrialization
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| A new concentration of business in suburban areas due to urban sprawl | show 🗑
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| A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background. | show 🗑
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| Area of urban land that contains more than 50,000 people, a central city, and the counties where most of the people work in and/or visit the central city for many services. A group of connected MSAs creates a Megalopolis. | show 🗑
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| Countries where their largest city has more than twice as many people as the 2nd largest city follow this rule. | show 🗑
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| The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a given service. Everyday items like groceries etc. have a short range. The range of specialty items is much longer. | show 🗑
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| These are shantytowns or slums that surround the central business district or the main primate city in the LDCs. These areas have few amenities and the homes are usually made out of temporary materials. | show 🗑
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| The minimum number and type of people needed to support a service, example: expensive services need a wealthy client. Large services like Major league sports teams need a large number of people to survive. | show 🗑
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| a net migration from urban to rural areas (this only happens in very developed areas in North America and Western Europe) | show 🗑
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| show | Basic Industry
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| show | Clustered Rural Settlement
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| Atlanta is an example of a _____________ because, although it is not as large or important to the world as New York, it is the regional headquarters for many corporations in the Southeast. | show 🗑
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| During Westward Expansion, pioneers created _____________ in the Great Plains because the East had become crowded and they had moved without extended family, so they preffered to live isolated from their neighbors. | show 🗑
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| The economic housing structure of the ___________ is opposite to most in the United States because most of their suburbs are filled with high rise low income apartments rather than upper middle class neighborhoods. | show 🗑
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| The ____________ is distinct from the world because it contains a spine of services that extend out from a central market, which usually contains a large cathedral. | show 🗑
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| show | Multiple Nuclei Model
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| show | Non basic Industry
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| show | Sector Model
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| Detroit is the __________________ for the auto industry, specializing in the teriary side of the industry such as research, management, and development of new technologies. | show 🗑
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