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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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Basic sector

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the urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs

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Central city

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a theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of people’s shopping behavior.

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Central Place Theory

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a multifunctional nucleated settlement with a central business district and both residential and nonresidential land uses.

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City

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A community’s collection of basic industries.

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Economic base

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cities experiencing population growth as well as increasing economic and political clout throughout their region.

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Emerging city

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a city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical characteristics.

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Gateway city

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may only include a few dozen people and offer few basic services, such as a gas station, a general store, or a coffee shop

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Hamlet

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the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.

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Hinterland (market area)

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economic activities that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration.

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Informal sector

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a city with a population of over ten million people.

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Megacities

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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.

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Megalopolis (conurbation)

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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.

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Metropolitan area (Metropolis)

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those economic activities of an urban unit that supply the resident population with goods and services and that have no “export” implication.

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Nonbasic sector (service sector)

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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.

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Primate city

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in central-place theory, the average maximum distance people will travel to purchase a good or service.

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Range

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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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Rank-size rule

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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.

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Tertiary Sector

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in central-place theory, the size of the population required to make provision of services economically feasible.

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Threshold

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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.

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Towns

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the central city and the surrounding suburbs

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Urban area

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a region in which the world’s first cities evolved.

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Urban hearth area

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a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic function, e.g., hamlet – village – town – city – metropolis - megalopolis.

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Urban hierarchy

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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.

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Urbanization

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larger than hamlets and will likely offer several dozen services that are more specialized than those of a hamlet.

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Village

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a city that plays an especially important role in global business services.

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World city (Global city)