AP Human Geography March 10, 2016 Vocab Units VI and VII Industrialization and Cities 1. Industrial Revolution-A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods. 2. Situation factors-The location of a place relative to other places. Situation factors Location factors related to the transportation of materials into and from a factory. 3. Central Business District-The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered 4. 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 5. Gentrification-A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-