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AP Hug Urbanization Test

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Situation
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Site
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Islamic cities
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Range
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central business district
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colonial city
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metropolitan area
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hinterland
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sector model
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node
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Zone of Independent Workers
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concentric zone mode
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Latin American cities
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primate city
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gentrification
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Megalopolis
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Zone of Better Residences
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central place theory
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multi nuclei model
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inner city decay
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A place's relationship with other locations or it's relative location.
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The maximum distance that people are willing to travel to gain access to a service.
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several, metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large, sprawling urban complex
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within the US, 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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cities established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures
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a country's leading city, with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country
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those parts of large urban areas that lose significant portions of their populations as a result of change in industry or migration to suburbs. Because of these changes, the inner city loses its tax base and becomes a center of poverty
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the downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems coverage
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geographical centers activity. A large city, such as Los Angeles, has numerous nodes
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cites in Muslim countries that owe their structure to their religious beliefs. Islamic cities contain mosques at their center and wall guarding their perimeter
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type of urban form wherein cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place
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the market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves
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These are professional class suburbs (white-collar neighborhoods). These areas are low-density residential spaces. Really took off in the post WW II era. (Suburbanization) Traditionally dominated by WASPS.
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a theory in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of competitive supply of goods and services to distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations
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The physical characteristics of a place or it's absolute location.
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Usually working-class or blue-collar neighborhoods. Many ethnic neighborhoods are located in this area. These are high-density residential spaces. Today we call these areas the inner city. They are sometimes subject to gentrification.
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cities in Latin America that owe much of their structure to colonialism, the rapid rise of industrialization, and continual rapid increases in population
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a model or urban land use that places the central business district in the middle with wedge-shape sectors radiating outwards from the center along transportation corridors
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the trend of middle- and upper income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods
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model that describes urban environments as a series of rings of distinct land uses radiating out from a central core, or central business distric
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The minimum number of people required to support a business.
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cities that arose during the Middle Ages and that actually represent a time of relative stagnation in urban growth
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the process that results from suburbanization when affluent individuals leave the city center for homogenous suburban neighborhoods
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cities that were of that retain many of the same characteristics such as extreme density of development with narrow buildings and winding roads; church centered and high walls around the city
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rule that states that the population of any given town should be inversely proportional to its rank in the country's hierarchy when the distribution of cities according to their sizes follows a certain pattern
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centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce
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person who haas left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas
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the process of expansive suburban development over large areas spreading out from a city, in which the automobile provides the primary source of transportation
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residential developments characterized by the extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants
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period characterized by the rapid social 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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