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| increase in the percentage & the number of people living in an urban settlement |
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| Examples of Festival Landscape |
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| Inner Harbor of Baltimore, Skydome in Toronto, Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta |
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| What are the two components early humans needed in order to develop cities? |
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| Agricultural Surplus and Social Stratification |
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| inner city or suburban residents move to rural areas to escape congestion, crime, pollution, etc. of the urban landscape |
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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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| area of city where retail and office activities are clustered |
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rank atop the urban hierarchy and dominates the urban concentration within a state; usually political and financial heart
Ex: London, Mexico City, Seoul, Paris, Luanda, etc... |
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| Which region has an urban population comparable to the MDCs? |
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| process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property/poverty within the boundaries |
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established by imperialistic empires as administrative centers, military posts, and trade centers; often placed over native cities, wiping out former practices, infrastructure, and culture
Ex: Mexico City over Aztec's Tenochtitlan, New Delhi (British) over Delhi |
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| What invention(s) led to the building of skyscrapers? |
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| elevators and iron frame construction |
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| the process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods |
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| agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs to survive where excess is sold for consumption |
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| Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) |
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MSA (created by U.S. Census Bureau as a method of measurement for the functional area of city) includes:
1) An urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000
2) The county within which the city is located
3) Adjacent counties with a high population density and a large % of residents working in the central city's county |
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% of people living in cities has increased over the years:
•1850= 6%
•1900= 14%
•1950= 30%
•2000= 47%
•2012= 51%
3/4 of the people in MDCs live in urban areas, while 2/5 in LDCs |
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| Models of Urban Structure |
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developed to explain where different types of people tend to live in an urban area:
1) Concentric Zone Model (Burhess Model)
2) Sector Model (Hoyt Model)
3) Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris & Ullman Model) |
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| differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production and prestige |
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| social scientist who argued that the urban dweller follows a different way of life than a rural dweller (1930s); defined a city as a permanent settlemt with three characteristics: large size, high population density, socially heterogeneous people |
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| in economic geography and central place theory, the minimum market needed to support the supply of a product or service |
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| growth in MDCs is due to Industrial Revolution of the 19th century and growth of services in the 20th century; many MDCs are fully urbanized because of % of urban residents is so high and those interested in migrating from rural to urban areas have already done so |
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| a functionally specialized segment of a large urban complex located outside the boundaries of the central city; usually, a relatively homogeneous residential community, separately incorporated and administrated |
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| area within a city in a less developed state in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and make homemade structures |
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| process where many inner-city areas become more dilapidated areas of poverty as affluent groups move out to the suburbs & immigrants and minority groups vie for scarce oppurtunities |
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