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APHG Unit 7 Flashcards
Unit 7 Flashcards
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Geography
9th Grade
04/04/2013

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Term
Central Business District (CBD)
Definition

Area of a city where retail and office activites are clustered 

- Usually one of the oldest districts in the settlement

-Contains high % of infrastructure, buildings, retail

Term
Gentrification
Definition
The process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods
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Planned Community
Definition
An area where developers can plot out each house in the development and build the community from scratch
Term
Urbanization
Definition
Increase in the percentage and the number of people living in an urban settlement
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Urbanized Area

 

Definition
In the U.S. a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs
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Urban Morphology
Definition
Study of the physical form and structure of urban places
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Agricultural Surplus
Definition
Agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs to survive where excess is sold for consumption by others
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Social Stratification
Definition
Differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production and prestige
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First Urban Revolution
Definition
Innovation of cities that occured independently in five seperate hearths
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Resource Node 

 

Definition
Towns/cities formed due to access to natural resources Ex. Sacramento, CA due to gold
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Transportation Node
Definition

Formed due to location as intersection of two or more lines of transportation

Ex. San Francisco, CA (Port) 

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Urban Sprawl
Definition
Unrestricted growth in many U.S. urban areas of housing, commercial development and roads over large expanses of land with little concern for urban planning
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Filtering
Definition
A process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment
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Peak Land Value Intersection (PLVI)
Definition
Part of CBD that is the downtown intersection surrounding the most expensive pieces of real estate
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Garden City Movement
Definition
Homes designed to look like European farm houses with front lawns and were originally built for the growing urban middle class of Chicago in Riverside, illinois
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