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| a settlement in which certain products and services are available to consumers |
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| a theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of peoples' shopping behavior |
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| the functional dominance of cities within an urban system |
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| a city that was deliberately established or developed as an administrative or commercial center by colonial or imperial powers |
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| the net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas |
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| serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation |
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| economic activities that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration |
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| a very large city characterized by both primacy and high centrality within its national economy |
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| a condition in which cities grow more rapidly than the jobs and houses they can sustain |
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| condition in which the population of the largest city in an urban system is disproportionately large in relation to the second and third largest cities |
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| statistical regularity in size distributions of cities and regions |
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| growth of population in metropolitan central cores following a period of absolute or relative decline in population |
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| city that is seen as the embodiment of surprising and disturbing changes in economic, social, and cultural life |
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| fragmentation of the economic, social, and material fabric of cities as a result of the selective impact of new technologies and networked information and communications infrastructures |
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| residential developments that occur on land that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants |
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| social and demographic composition of city districts and neighborhoods |
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| physical structure and organization of cities |
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| interdependent set of urban settlements within a specified region |
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| way of life, attitudes, values, and patterns of behavior fostered by urban settings |
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| city in which a disproportionate part of the worlds most important business is conducted |
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