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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| All MDCs show the ________ in all or most of their cities, showing that services are well distributed throughout the country. | show 🗑
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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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| _________ has lead to a change in the type of activities and architecture in the inner cities. Governments are “greening” these areas, combining recreational and retail services together. | show 🗑
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| show | Employment Structure
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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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| Also known as “Back Office Jobs” these are businesses, or parts of businesses devoted to calling customers or potential customers. | show 🗑
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| show | Centralization
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| Process of social and economic change caused by removal of industry as a country moves into the tertiary sector. | show 🗑
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| show | Edge City
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| show | Ghetto
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| show | Metropolitan Statistical Area
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| A temporary market that is set up every so often to bring certain types of goods and services to an area that does not have the population to support that service every day. | show 🗑
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| show | Primate City Rule
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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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| show | Command and Control Center City
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| show | Dispersed Rural Settlement
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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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| show | Latin American City Model
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| show | Multiple Nuclei Model
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| show | Non basic Industry
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| The ____________ illustrates that most cities have wedges of different activities, such as upscale vs low income housing, spreading out from the CBD. In addition, industry clusters around the main transportation route. | show 🗑
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| show | Specialized Producer Service Center
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| New York is a __________ because the World Trade Center and United Nations spread information and wealth throughout the world. | show 🗑
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