APHG LAST UNITTT Flashcards
Urbanization
1) an increase in the number of people living in cities and
2) an increase in the percentage of people living in cities and
Centeal Business District
Concentration of business and commerce in the city’s downtown
—> Detroit’s Grand Circus Park neighborhood vs. The Lafayette Building
Synekism
Conditions that derive from dwelling together in a particular space
—> Detroit created they conditions necessary for industrial production yo expand to the global scale
City
Urban settlements that have been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.
A conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together
Urban
Built-up space of the central city and suburbs; the city and the surrounding environs connected to the city
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
1) Urbanized w/ pop of 50,000
2) county within which the city is located
3) adjacent counties with a high pop density and a large percentage of residents working in the central city’s county
20% of all US land area