13997414238 | cape cod | small one story pithed roof long pitched roof in front and low angle in back New England | 0 | |
13997427680 | Federalist or Georgian | late 1700s and early 1800s 2 or 3 story urban connected townhouses Classical Greek and roman symmetrical homes with central equal number of windows | 1 | |
13997534167 | I houses | loose form of federalist or Georgian influence on average family home central door with window on each side three windows on 2nd floor as the houses diffused westward symmetry and rectangular shape was lost fireplaces/chimneys at end of house and even pitched roofs | 2 | |
13997642451 | conurbation | a continuous, extended urban area formed by the growing together of several formerly separate, expanding cities | 3 | |
13997642452 | enclave | a distinct region or community enclosed within a larger territory | 4 | |
13997645774 | exclave | a part of a country that is seperated from the rest of the country and surrounded by foreign territory. | 5 | |
13997648380 | free trade | international trade free of government interference | 6 | |
13997648381 | Glocalization | The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes | 7 | |
13997650185 | Irredentism | a policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a country aimed at a group of its nationals living in a neighboring country | 8 | |
13997655941 | isotropic place | 2 dimensional, flat plane, CPT assumes existence | 9 | |
13997669591 | megacity | a great city that is made up of several large and small cities | 10 | |
13997672084 | nation | a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. | 11 | |
13997675732 | New Urbanism | A movement in urban planning to promote mixed use commercial and residential development and pedestrian friendly, community orientated cities. New urbanism is a reaction to the sprawling, automobile centered cities of the mid twentieth century. | 12 | |
13997685080 | space-time compression | The reduction in the time it takes to diffuse something to a distant place, as a result of improved communications and transportation systems | 13 | |
13997689286 | spatial | relating to space | 14 | |
13997695751 | SEZ (Special Economic Zone) | A geographic region that is designed to export goods and provide employment. This area is therefore often given tax incentive, tax breaks, and special economic opportunities. Designated areas in countries that possess special economic regulations that are different from other areas in the same country, usually meaning that a company will receive tax incentives and the opportunity to pay lower tariffs. | 15 | |
13997698871 | long lots | houses erected on narrow lots perpendicular to a long river, so that each original settler had equal river access | 16 | |
13997701207 | metes and bounds | A method of land description which involves identifying distances and directions and makes use of both the physical boundaries and measurements of the land. | 17 | |
13997707677 | township and range | based upon lines of latitude and longitude | 18 | |
13998902138 | time distance decay | The declining degree of acceptance of an idea or innovation with increasing time and distance from its point of origin or source. | 19 | |
13998902139 | Topography | A description of surface features of land. | 20 | |
13998906904 | world city | Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce. | 21 | |
13998909741 | Vance | Urban Realms Model | 22 | |
13998921306 | Territorial/Definitional Boundary Dispute | In political geography, disagreement between states over the control of surface area. | 23 | |
13999011038 | positional/locational boundary dispute | dispute that focuses on delimitation and demarcation of border and the interpretation of the definition of the border | 24 | |
13999019332 | Operational/functional boundary dispute | Disagreement over policies to be applied along a boundary, such as immigration or land use | 25 | |
13999025061 | Allocational/resource boundary dispute | disputes over natural resource that occurs on or at the boundary | 26 |
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