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| 62878958 | urban morphology | the study of the physical form and structure of urban places | |
| 62878959 | city | conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics | |
| 62878960 | urban | the entire built-up, nonrural area and its population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions and population of such an area than the delimited municipality (central city) that forms its heart. | |
| 62878961 | agricultural village | A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops. | |
| 62878962 | agricultral surplus | One of two components, together with social stratification, that enable the formation of cities; agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is then stayed in one place to tend their crops. | |
| 62878963 | social stratification | one of two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige | |
| 62878964 | leadership class | group of decision-makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others | |
| 62878965 | first urban revolution | The innovation of the city, which occurred independently in five separate hearths. | |
| 62878966 | Mesopotamia | Region of great cities (e.g Ur and Babylong) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth, dating to 3500 BCE, and which as founded in the Fertile Crescent. | |
| 62878967 | Nile River Valley | chronologically the second urban hearth, dating to 3200 bce | |
| 62878968 | Indus River Valley | chronologically, the third urgan hearth, dating to 2200 bc | |
| 62878969 | Huang He and Wei River Valleys | rivers in present day China and chronologically the fourth urban hearth was established around 1500 BCE | |
| 62878970 | Mesoamerica | chronologically the fifth urban hearth, dating to 200 bce | |
| 62878971 | acropolis | Literally "high point of the city." The upper fortified part of an ancient Greek city, usually devoted to religious purposes. | |
| 62878972 | agora | In ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded. | |
| 62878973 | site | the internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting. | |
| 62878974 | Forum | the focal point of ancient roman life combining the functions of the ancient greek acropolis and agora | |
| 62878975 | situation | The external location attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places. | |
| 62878976 | trade area | region adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant | |
| 62878977 | rank-size rule | In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population od a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy | |
| 62878978 | central place theory | Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another. | |
| 62878979 | Sunbelt phenomenon | The movement of millions of Americans from northern/northeastern states into the south/southwestern regions. | |
| 62878980 | functional zonation | the division of a city into different regions or zones (e.g. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions (e.g. housing or manufacturing). | |
| 62878981 | zone | area of a city with a relatively uniform land use (e.g. an industrial zone, or residential zone). | |
| 62878982 | central business district | The downtown heart of a central city, the Central Business District is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings. |
