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Geography
9th Grade
05/01/2013

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urban geography
Definition
focuses on how cities function
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suburbs
Definition
areas that are also nucleated
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nucleated
Definition
A settlement clustered around a central point, such as a village greenor church
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physical city
Definition
is a continuous development that conains a central city and other nearby cities
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metropolitan area
Definition
a large scale finctional entity that operates as an integrated economic whole
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metropolitan statistical area
Definition
a central county or counties with at least one urbanized area of at least  50,000 ppl
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hamlet
Definition
a small cluster of farmers houses with perhaps a few basic services
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town
Definition
larger than a village, the structures have more specialized functions. Has a hinterland
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hinterland
Definition
a ssurrounding area of smaller villages and hamlets
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city
Definition
has a larger population, more functional specialization. They also have CBDs
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CBD
Definition
downtown
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megalopolis
Definition
is multiple cities that have grown together, form the highest level of urban hierarchy
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bosnywash
Definition
spreads from east coast of US from boston to D.C.
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Louis Wirth
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social scientist in 1930s
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formative era
Definition
period between 4000 and 2000 bc
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states
Definition
organized territories under governments
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urban elite
Definition
decision makers and organizers
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city-states
Definition
self governing communities that includedthe nearby countryside
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urban empire
Definition
roman became an urban empire after they succeeded the greeks
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primate cities
Definition
larger than other cities in area
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mercantile city
Definition
where trade became central to city design
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manufacturing city
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where factories attracted laborers from rural areas as workers
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megacities
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a city with more thyan 10 million ppl
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transportation centers
Definition
where major routes converge
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special function cities
Definition
engaged in mining, manufacturing, or recreation
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central places
Definition
provide goods and services for the surrounding areas
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export activities
Definition
goods or services for areas outside the city
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basic sector
Definition
the export activities resulting in money flowing
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base ratio
Definition
a ration between workers employed in the basic sector and those in the nonbasic sector
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nonbasic
Definition
other goods or services for residents
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multiplier effect
Definition
new basic sector  employment is accompanied by more nonbasic workers
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urban influence zone
Definition
areas outside the city that are affected by it
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settlement geography
Definition
the patterns of settlement on earths surface
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rank-size rule
Definition
summarization of the city-size hierarchy
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central place theory
Definition
views urban settlements as centers for the distribution of economic goods and services
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complementary regions
Definition
where each individual urban center and its merchant have a sales monopoloy
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hierarchy of central places
Definition
with small centers providing low-order services than large centers
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concentric zone

 

Definition
views cities as growing outward from the CBD in senses of rings
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E.W. Burgess
Definition
sociologist who made concentric zone model
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Zone in Transition
Definition
contains light industry and housing for the poor
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Sector Model
Definition
city develops in a series of sectors
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Homer Hoyt
Definition
developed sector model
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multiple-nuclei model
Definition
says larger cities develop from spreading from several nodes
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harris and ullman
Definition
developed multiple-nuclei model
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Social Area Analysis
Definition
puts together info from census track to see where people live
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Ferminization of Poverty
Definition
the increasing porportion of the poor who are women
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Ghettos
Definition
poor housing, high crime rates, bad schools
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Redlining
Definition
refusing to give out loans for houses
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Blockbusting
Definition
when real estate agents seek out to sell a house in a white neighborhood to a black so that they leave
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Racial Steering
Definition
attempt to change ghetto boundries
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Infrastructure
Definition
the facilities that support basic economic activities eg banks hotel radio
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Rush Hour
Definition
two hour period in th emorning when ppl go to work
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Zoning Ordinances

 

Definition
encourgaes spatial seperation by preventing mining of land uses
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Councils of Government
Definition
Cooperative agencies consisting of representatives from local governments in their region
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Smart Growth
Definition
to produce a pattern of controlled development
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Urban Renewal
Definition
Places that allow the govenrment to buy properties from the owners
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Public Housing
Definition
reserved for low income houses
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Gentrification
Definition
neighborhood often begins to attract middle class residents
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Megastores
Definition
huge stores witha variety of products
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Edge Cities
Definition
independent suburban areas
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Density Gradient
Definition
as distance increases from center, the density of resident of houses decrease
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Sprawl
Definition
allows people to have larger houses
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Greenbelts
Definition
rings of open space were houses cannot be built
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Disamenity Sector
Definition

a stable slum area

 

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