Ap Flashcards

6713564966	Agglomeration	Clustering of businesses for mutual benefits of close proximity; can share labor pools	0
6713570182	Deglomeration	Process of industrial deconcentration	1
6713574632	metropolis	Several urbanized areas and suburbs	2
6713577131	Megalopolis	occur predominantly in MDC's large super cities that were originally separate but have expanded and joined together	3
6713586645	mega city	occur predominantly in ldcs; high population growth and migration cause these cities to attract massive amounts od population since wwii	4
6713604214	CBD	central business district	5
6713609732	Urban Sprawl	Process of expansive suburban development over large areas	6
6713614271	smart growth	fill unused space	7
6713619125	Central place theory	seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system	8
6713625785	Range	maximum distance	9
6713627756	Threshold	minimum amount of customers	10
6713635331	Gentrification	high-income americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture	11
6713695110	world city	centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce	12
6713712980	Blockbusting	Process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower property value	13
6713722898	redlining	illegal discriminatory practice in the US where minorities are prevented from obtaining loans to buy homes or property	14
6713778955	Latin American	Sector development	15
6713782429	Southeast asia	sectors and zones	16