Ap Flashcards

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