Unit 6 - Additional Vocab. Flashcards

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Annexation

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Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

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Counterurbanization

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Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

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Ecumene

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The portion of earths surface occupied by permanent human settlement

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Exurbanization

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The movement of households from urban areas to locations outside the urban area but within the commuting field

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Incorporation

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Incorporated communities are officially labeled and demarcated via

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Leap Frog Development

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Developments that jump over established developments, leaving undeveloped or underdeveloped land between developments

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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

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In the United States, an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city

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Reurbanization

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Involves the growth of population in metropolitan central cores following a period of absolute or relative decline in population

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Satellite city

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An established town near a very large city that has grown into a city, independent of the larger one

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Scattered site housing

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A form of housing in which publicly funded, affordable, low-density units are scattered throughout diverse, middle-class neighborhoods

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Unincorporated

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Are not officially considered to be municipal areas of their own accord. They often act as a part of a larger municipality, such as a county or city

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