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| ratio between workers employed in the basic sector and those employed in the nonbasic sector |
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| those products or services of an urban economy that are exported outside the city itself, earning income for the community. |
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| a sector in which workers are responsible for the functioning of the city itself |
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| a sociologist who made the concentric zone model |
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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 Bureau of the Census for which statisitcs are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods |
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| central business district |
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| the area of the 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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| came up with the Central Place Theory in 1903 |
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| a large and densely populated urban area |
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| a city and its surrounding lands that act as a government |
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| where each individual urban center and its merchants have a sales monopoly |
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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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| cities that are located on the on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decetralized suburban environment |
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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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| city slum areas inhabited by minority groups living there due to social or economic pressures |
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| the process of an area becoming more run down or shanty-like |
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| 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 the multiple-nuclei model which was developed in 1945 |
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| hierarchy of central places |
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| small centers providing lower-order services than the large centers do |
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| an economist who created the sector model of a city |
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| the basic facilities and services that support a community |
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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 million 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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| a city in which a central square became the focus of the city flanked by royal, religious, public, and private buildings: streets leading to such squares formed the beginnings of a 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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| metropolitian statistical area |
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| a central county of counties with atleast of one urbanized area of atleast 50,000 people |
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| micropolitan statistical area |
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| a similar but smaller version of a metropolis, with atleast one urban cluster between 10,000-50,000 people |
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| counters that large cities develop by spreading nodes of growth, not just one |
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| expansion of economic activity caused by the growth or introduction of another economic activity |
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| a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings (e.g., Asian longhouse) |
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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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| In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. |
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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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| study where Social Scientists compare the various distributions and create an overall picture of where various types of people tend to live |
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| cities that have a special function |
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| development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area. |
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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 |
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| the people living in a municipality smaller than a city |
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| 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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| group of socially, politically, or economically dominant figures in a society. |
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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 communites from largest to smallest |
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| an area outside of a city that is nevertheless affected by the city |
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| the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums |
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| thought that urban development leads to social and personal disorders, believed technology causes problems |
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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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| first developed in europe and north america in the early 20th century and they encourage spatial seperation by preventing mixing of land use in the same district |
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