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| ratio between workers employed in the basic sector and those employed in the nonbasic sector |
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| Basic sector of a local economy includes any industry that brings in money from outside the area |
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| served as the 24th President of the American Sociological Society |
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| the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. |
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| An area deliniated by the us beureau of the census for which statisitcs are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods |
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| central business district (CBD) |
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| area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
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| a city surrounded by suburbs |
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| 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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| provided a model for settlement patterns that rested on several assumptions |
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| people living in a large densely populated municipality |
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| a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
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| the merging of two regions for benefit |
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| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
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| cooperative agencies consisting of representatives from local governments in the region |
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| The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords. |
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| clusters of large buildings away from the central business district |
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| the process of exporting goods from a region |
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| the trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poor |
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| time where the major urban hearths came into existance |
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| the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people) |
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| GHETTOS: portion of a city in which members of a minority group live; especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. GHETTOIZATION: The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area. |
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| (in European cities) undeveloped area neighboring an urban area, often protected from development by planning law |
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| a community of people smaller than a village |
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| developed multiple nuclei model explaining that large cities developed by spreading from several places of growth, not just one |
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| hierarchy of central places |
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| Central places are more economicly active and thrive |
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| a city develops in a series of sectors, not rings |
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| the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area |
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| where less expensive homes and businesses seem to be in a chronic state of ongoing construction and renovation. |
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| a city overrun with factories, supply facilities, the expansion of transport systems, and the consturction of tenements for a growing labor force. |
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| urban area over 10 mil. People |
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| a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) |
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| huge stores with a wide variety of products designed for one stop shopping |
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| fronted by royal, religious, public, and private buildings evincing wealth and prosperity, power and influence (downtown) |
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| a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surround it |
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| metropolitan statistical area |
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| area with a city of 50 thousand or more people, together with adjacent urban communities that have strong ties to the central city. |
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| micropolitan statistical area |
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| An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city. |
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| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. |
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| An effect in economics in which an increase in spending produces an increase in national income and consumption greater than the initial amount spent. |
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| having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus |
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| A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. |
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| a continuous development that contains a central city and many nearby cities, towns, and suburbs |
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| A city which is greater than two times the next largest city in a nation (or contains over one-third of a nation's population). The primate city is usually very expressive of the national culture and often the capital city. |
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| a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |
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| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the 11th largest settlement is Un the population of the largest settlement. |
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| The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic |
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| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD). |
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| patterns of settlement on earth;s surface: rank-size rule and Christaller's central place theory |
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| legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |
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| puts together information from the census tracts to create and overall picture of how various types of people are distrbuted within a broader area, like a city |
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| cities are dominated by one activity such as mining, manufacturing or recreation and serving national and international markets. |
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| an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about |
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| independent political units with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states |
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| Residential areas surrounding a city. Shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people. |
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| the people living in a municipality smaller than a city |
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| Cities where major routes converge - roads, railroads, sea traffic, and air transportation |
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| a geographical area constituting a city or town |
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| a group of decision makers and organizers who controlled the resources, and sometimes the lives of others |
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| A nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor |
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| The study of how people use space in cities |
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| a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions |
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| Areas outside the city that are affected by it. |
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| the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums |
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| American sociologist whose theory was based on an essay 'Urbanism as a Way of Life.' |
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| Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce. |
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| An area that is either becoming more rural or more urban |
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| old part of city, more wealthy live here, bigger houses |
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| A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |
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