APHUG Chapter 18 Flashcards
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Ecumene
The land where people made their permanent home
Urban
Cities with high concentration of people
Suburbs
Residential areas near cities
Rural
Areas like farms and villages with low concentration of people
Settlement
A place with a permanent population
Urbanization
A process of developing towns and cities
Percent Urban
An indicator of the proportion of the population
Suburbanization
The process of people moving from cities to a residential area
Reurbanization
Suburbanites return to live city
Exurbanization
Moving people farther out into rural areas due to remotely working
Satellite City
An established town near a very large city grows into a city independent of the larger one
City-State
Where there’s an urban center with its surrounding being territory and villages. (They get goods and protection from urban cities)
Metro Area
Collection of adjacent cities which population density is high and continuous
Metropolititan
A city that consists of at least 50,000 people
Micropolitan Statistical Areas
Cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants but less than 50,000
Nodal Reigon
a social or economic function that occurs between a node or focal point and the surrounding areas
Social Heterogeneity
The population in these types of cities contain a great variety of people
Space time compression
The way that the word is seemingly getting smaller due to increased transportations
Borcherts Model
A model that describes urban growth based on transportation technology
Pedestrian cities
Cities shapped by the distance people could walk
Streetcar suburbs
communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged often creating a pinwheel shaped city
Urban System
Citiesthat depend on each other in a reigion
Gravity model
The model says that places that are closer together will have a greater interaction than places smaller and farther away
Rank Size Rule
if all cities in a country are placed in order. from the largest to the smallest, each one will have a population half the size of the preceding city.The rule describe one way in which cities within a region may develop
Primate City
The largest settlement in a country, must have MORE than 2x the people than the second ranking city.
Central Place Theory
Theory explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a reigion
Market Area
An area that provides goods and services and while doing this draws in population
Hexagonal Hinterlands
A surrounding area served by an urban center
Threshold
A size of population is necessary for any population service to exist and remain profitable
Range
The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods
Megacities
Worlds largest cities typically have more than 10 million people
World Cities/Global Cities
An urban city that is a major player in the global economy and is connected to a network of other global cities through economic, cultural, and political linkage
Megalopolis
A chain of connected cities whos population exceeds 10 million. Ex: Costal side of the US
Conurbation
An extended urban area typically consisiting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities
