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| 287480074 | cities and urban land use | unrestricted growth around the city fingers is often matched by a loss of population in the inner city areas, leaving existing housing and services underused. In the process, demand for land and building materials increases pressure on the Earth's resources. | |
| 287480075 | agglomeration | the act of collecting in a mass | |
| 287480076 | barriadas | Squatter settlements found in the periphery of Latin American cities. | |
| 287480077 | bid rent theory | theory that explains how real estate values change with distance from CBD | |
| 287480078 | blockbusting | A process by which real state agents convince white property owners to sell their homes at low prices because of fear that black families will move into the neighborhood | |
| 287480079 | central business district | The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. | |
| 287480080 | census tract | An area deliniated by the us beureau of the census for which statisitcs are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods | |
| 287480081 | centrality | the property of being central | |
| 287480082 | centralization | the act of consolidating power under a central control | |
| 287480083 | central place theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services | |
| 287480084 | walter christaller | Came up with the Central Place Theory in 1903 | |
| 287480085 | city | people living in a large densely populated municipality | |
| 287480086 | cityscapes | similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city's skyline, which is the CBD). | |
| 287480087 | colonial city | cities established by colonizing empires as administrative centers | |
| 287480088 | commercialization | the act of commercializing something | |
| 287480089 | commuter zone | The last ring of the Concentric zone model, past the built up area of the city, where people travel into and out of the city. | |
| 287480090 | concentric zone model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. | |
| 287480091 | counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | |
| 287480092 | decentralization | the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | |
| 287480093 | deindustrialization | loss of the industrial activity in a region | |
| 287480094 | early cities | Cities of the ancient world (-3500 to -1200) (We learned about how agriculture and language began in this era. | |
| 287480095 | economic base | A community's collection of basic industries. | |
| 287480096 | edge city | a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area | |
| 287480097 | emerging cities | City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate (learned about cities that are growing at a fast rate) | |
| 287480098 | employment structure | Number of people employed with both basic and nonbasic jobs | |
| 287480099 | entrepot | a depository for goods | |
| 287480100 | ethnic neighborhood | an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background | |
| 287480101 | favela | a slum community | |
| 287480102 | female headed household | a household dominated by a woman | |
| 287480103 | festival landscape | a landscape of cultural festivities (We learned about the culture.) | |
| 287480104 | gateway city | Cities that, because of their geographic location, act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas. | |
| 287480105 | gender | the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | |
| 287480106 | gentrification | the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people) | |
| 287480107 | ghetto | a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | |
| 287480108 | globalization | growth to a global or worldwide scale | |
| 287480109 | great cities | a city with a population of more then 1 million | |
| 287480110 | high tech corridors | an area along a limited-access highway that houses offices and other services associated with high-tech industries | |
| 287480111 | hinterland | a remote and undeveloped area | |
| 287480112 | hydraulic civilization | A civilization based on large-scale irrigation | |
| 287480113 | indigenous city | a center of population, commerce, and culture that is native to a country | |
| 287480114 | in-filling | New building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development | |
| 287480115 | informal sector | the portion of an economy largely outside government control in which employees work without contracts or benefits | |
| 287480116 | infrastructure | the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | |
| 287480117 | inner city | the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city | |
| 287480118 | invasion and succession | Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups. | |
| 287480119 | lateral commuting | commuting that occurs between suburban areas rather than towards the central city. | |
| 287480120 | medieval cities | Many European cities characterized by narrow winding streets and an ornate church inherited their organization from | |
| 287480121 | megacities | cities with more than 10 million people | |
| 287480122 | megalopolis/conurbation | An overgrown urban area created by the gradual merging of several metropolitan areas | |
| 287480123 | metropolitan area | a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it | |
| 287480124 | multiple nuclei model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. | |
| 287480125 | multiplier effect | An effect in economics in which an increase in spending produces an increase in national income and consumption greater than the initial amount spent. | |
| 287480126 | neighborhood | people living near one another | |
| 287480127 | office park | A cluster of office bulidings, usually located along an interstate, often forming the nucleus of an edge city | |
| 287480128 | peak land value intersection | The most accessible and costly parcel of land in the central business district and, therefore, in the entire urbanized area. | |
| 287480129 | planned communities | A city built to a definite plan | |
| 287480130 | postindustrial city | a city in which global finances and the electronic flow of information dominate the economy | |
| 289243165 | postmodern urban landscape | ... | |
| 289243166 | primate city | ... | |
| 289243167 | racial steering | ... | |
| 289243168 | rank size rule | ... | |
| 289243169 | redlining | ... | |
| 289243170 | restrictive covenants | ... | |
| 289243171 | sector model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD). | |
| 289243172 | segregation | a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups | |
| 289243173 | settlement form | nucleated, dispersed, elongated | |
| 289243174 | shopping mall | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers | |
| 289243175 | site/situation | the internal physical attributes of a place/the external locational attributes of a place. | |
| 289243176 | slum | a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | |
| 289243177 | social structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | |
| 289243178 | specialization | the special line of work you have adopted as your career | |
| 289243179 | squatter settlement | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. | |
| 289243180 | street pattern | type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. | |
| 289243181 | suburb | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | |
| 289243182 | suburbanization | The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe. | |
| 289243183 | symbolic landscape | smaller landscapes that symbolize a bigger area or category. iconic landscapes, i.e. the state capitol symbolizes WI. every landscape can symbolize something, but these are focal points for people's attention | |
| 289243184 | tenement | a rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | |
| 289243185 | threshold/range | The population required to make provision of services economically feasible./In economic geography and central place theory, the minimum market needed to support the supply of a product or service | |
| 289243186 | town | the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | |
| 289243187 | underclass | A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. | |
| 289243188 | underemployment | the condition when people work at jobs for which they are overqualified or that do not utilize their skills | |
| 289243189 | urban growth rate | Rate at which urban area size increases | |
| 289243190 | urban function | Services that are provided in a certain metropolitan area | |
| 289243191 | urban hearth area | A region in which the world's first cities evolved | |
| 289243192 | urban heat island | Local heat buildup in an area of high population density | |
| 289243193 | urban hierarchy | a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions | |
| 289243194 | urban hydrology | how a city deals with getting clean water to its citizens, removing dirty water and cleaning it, and the putting it back into the world's rivers and oceans | |
| 289243195 | urban morphology | the study of the physical form and structure of urban places | |
| 289243196 | urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | |
| 289243197 | urbanized population | the proportion of a country's population living in cities | |
| 289243198 | world city | Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce. | |
| 289243199 | zone in transition | An area that is either becoming more rural or more urban | |
| 289243200 | zoning | dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc |
