9750468416 | Ecumene | land where people have made their permanent home. | 0 | |
9750473758 | Urbanization | The movement of people to, and the clustering of people in | 1 | |
9750473759 | Suburbanization | Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social condition | 2 | |
9750475949 | Satellite city | A city which is greater than two times the next largest city | 3 | |
9750475950 | Time-space compression | increasing sense of connectivity that seems to be bringing people closer together even thought their distances are the same | 4 | |
9750477515 | Borchert's model | Rings | 5 | |
9750477516 | Gravity model | interactions between two cities | 6 | |
9750479574 | Rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. | 7 | |
9750479575 | Primate city | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement | 8 | |
9750482478 | Central place theory | explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system | 9 | |
9750482479 | Central place | provides services to other areas | 10 | |
9750483803 | Hexagonal hinterlands | the shape of each trade area | 11 | |
9750485128 | Threshold | the minimum number of people needed for a service to be worthwhile | 12 | |
9750487138 | Range | the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. | 13 | |
9750487139 | Megalopolis | an extensive concentration of urbanized settlement formed by a coalescence of several metropolitan areas | 14 | |
9750490309 | Concentric zone model | social groups spread apart | 15 | |
9750490310 | Central business district (CBD) | The downtown heart of a central city | 16 | |
9750491645 | Burgess Model | circuar areas different land use | 17 | |
9750491646 | Hoyt's model | residential patterns | 18 | |
9750493499 | Multiple-nuclei model | CBD not center the puzzle piece one | 19 | |
9750494993 | Peripheral model | inner city surrounded by residential areas | 20 | |
9750494994 | Griffen-Ford Model | thriving CBD with circular zones | 21 | |
9750496812 | shantytowns/favelas | Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities | 22 | |
9750496813 | Squatter settlements | 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 | 23 | |
9750498716 | McGee Model | the fan | 24 | |
9750500213 | Residential density gradient | 25 | ||
9750500214 | Urban planning | development and use of land | 26 | |
9750501281 | Bedroom communities | 27 | ||
9750501282 | Urban redlining | 28 | ||
9750503827 | Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area | 29 | |
9750503828 | Food deserts | large number of individguals not being located by a super market | 30 | |
9750505098 | Urban sprawl | cities expand outward | 31 | |
9750505099 | Racial segregation | the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. | 32 | |
9750507305 | sustainability | the ability to meet humanities current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. | 33 | |
9750507306 | greenbelts | A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area | 34 |
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