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Geography
9th Grade
04/17/2013

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Agglomeration
Definition
Grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources
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Barriadas
Definition
Squatter settlements found in the periphery of Latin American cities.
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Bid-rent theory
Definition
the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District increases.
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Blockbusting
Definition
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood.
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Central Business District (CBD)
Definition
The downtown heart of a central city, the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.
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Census Tract
Definition
Small country subdivisions, usually containing between 2,500 and 8,000 persons, delineated by the US Census Bureau as areas of relatively uniform population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions.
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cityscapes
Definition
urban landscape; similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city's skyline, which is the CBD)
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colonial city
Definition
City established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.
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commercialization
Definition
Marketing a product; The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity
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commuter zone
Definition
the outer most zone of the Concentric Zone Model that represents people who choose to live in residential suburbia and take a daily commute in the CBD to work.
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counterurbanization
Definition
Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries.
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decentralization
Definition
the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
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early cities
Definition
Cities of the ancient world (-3500 to -1200) (We learned about how agriculture and language began in this era..........
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entrepot
Definition
a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties
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favela
Definition
a slum community in a Brazilian city
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female-headed household
Definition
A household dominated by a woman (We learned about how MCDs have different family structure.)
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gateway city
Definition
because of their geographic location, they act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas (e.g., NYC, San Francisco, ...).
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gentrification
Definition
the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people)
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ghetto
Definition
a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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globalization
Definition
growth to a global or worldwide scale
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great cities
Definition
a city with a population of more then 1 million
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Centrality
Definition
The functional dominance of cities within an urban system
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Centralization
Definition
Is the process by which the activities of an organization
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Christaller, Walter
Definition
created the central place theory which displayed the ideas that central places would provide services and goods to the surrounding areas
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City
Definition
conglomeration of people and buildingd clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
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Commercialization
Definition
the transfermation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity
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Concentric zone model
Definition
a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
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Early city
Definition
cities of the ancient world
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Economic Base (basic/nonbasic)
Definition
a commutity's collection of basic industries
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Emerging city
Definition
city currantly without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate
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Employment structure
Definition
how the workforce is divided up between the three main employment sectors - primary, secondary, and tertiary
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Ethnic neighborhood
Definition
a neighborhood in which the people who live in there and share physical, mental, and cultural traits
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Festival landscape
Definition
a landscape of cultural festivities
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Central Place Theory
Definition
A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.
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