City 1 Flashcards
those products or services of an urban economy that are exported outside the city itself, earning income for the community.
Basic sector
the urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs
Central city
a theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of people’s shopping behavior.
Central Place Theory
a multifunctional nucleated settlement with a central business district and both residential and nonresidential land uses.
City
A community’s collection of basic industries.
Economic base
cities experiencing population growth as well as increasing economic and political clout throughout their region.
Emerging city
a city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical characteristics.
Gateway city
may only include a few dozen people and offer few basic services, such as a gas station, a general store, or a coffee shop
Hamlet
the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.
Hinterland (market area)
economic activities that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration.
Informal sector
a city with a population of over ten million people.
Megacities
where several metropolitan areas are linked together to form one huge urban area. One example is BosWash, which includes the land between the cities of Boston, MA and Washington D.C.
Megalopolis (conurbation)
in the U.S., a large functionally integrated settlement area comprising one or more whole country units and usually containing several urbanized areas: discontinuously built up, it operates as a coherent economic whole.
Metropolitan area (Metropolis)
those economic activities of an urban unit that supply the resident population with goods and services and that have no “export” implication.
Nonbasic sector (service sector)
a city of large size (over twice the size of the next largest city within that country) and dominant power within a country; a country’s largest city, ranking atop the urban hierarchy, most expressive of the national culture and usually (but not always) the capital city as well.
Primate city
in central-place theory, the average maximum distance people will travel to purchase a good or service.
Range
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.
Rank-size rule
the portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
Tertiary Sector
in central-place theory, the size of the population required to make provision of services economically feasible.
Threshold
may consist of 50 to a few thousand people. Towns are considered an urban area with a defined boundary but are smaller than a city in terms of population and area.
Towns
the central city and the surrounding suburbs
Urban area
a region in which the world’s first cities evolved.
Urban hearth area
a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic function, e.g., hamlet – village – town – city – metropolis - megalopolis.
Urban hierarchy
the proportion of a country’s population living in an urban area; the movement of people to, and clustering of people in, towns and cities.
Urbanization
larger than hamlets and will likely offer several dozen services that are more specialized than those of a hamlet.
Village
a city that plays an especially important role in global business services.
World city (Global city)
