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Geography-Unit 5 Flashcards

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Define range

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Average maximum distance people will travel for a particular service.

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Define central place

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A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people living in the surrounding area (hinterland)

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Define threshold

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The minimum number of customers needed to generate enough sales to make a profit.

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Central place theory

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Walter christaller. Because the range and thresholds of different services may vary, market centers are arranged in an orderly hierarchy.

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4 levels of market areas

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Hamlets, villages, town, city

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Define hamlet

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Very small hinterland, maybe offer a tavern, service station and cafe.

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Villages

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Small hinterland offers everything hamlet offers and a few more like convo wince stores churches post office.

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Town

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Large hinterland offers everything a village offers and few more like a grocery store and school.

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City

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Very large hinterland offers what a town offers and things like hospital and car dealership.

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Rank size rule

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Settlers in developed countries can be ranked from largest to smallest in a regular pattern.

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Primate city rule

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The largest city is more than twice as large as the next city.

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Global/world city

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A city integrated into the global economic system and is a center for the flow of money and information

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3 levels of global cities

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Alpha, beta and gamma

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What is in the CBD

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Professional businesses.

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What was once in the CBD

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Department stores and jewelers.

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Why is land expensive

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Competition for land because CBD is very accessible.

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Define vertical geography

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Build up. Higher rent is street level and
Occupied by retailers, middle rent is mid level and occupied by business services that do not depend on foot traffic and high level are apartments with less noise and great views.

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Where are factories and wear houses?

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Suburbs

18
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Why do YUPpies move to the CBD

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Nightlife, entertainment, restaurants, theaters, museums

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Define city

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An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self governing unit.

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Central city

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A city surrounded by suburbs

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Urban area

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A central city surrounded by suburbs

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Metropolitan area

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A functional region or all of the area that a central city influences.

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Megalopolis

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Overlapping metropolitan areas that cause one contiguous urban complex to be formed.

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Examples of megalopolis

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Boston to Washington

Chicago to Milwaukee

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Annexation

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Process of legally adding land to a city

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Peripheral model

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Chauncey Harris. An urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by a large suburban residential and business area tied together by a beltway ( circle of roads )

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Density gradient

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The number of housing units per acre of land diminishes as distance from the city center increases

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Urban sprawl

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The progressive spread of development over the landscape

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Council of government

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A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of various local governments in a metropolitan area

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Concentric zone model

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E.W. Burgess. City grow out from a center in a series of concentric rings. CBD, transition zone (industry mixed with poor housing), working class (modest older homes), better residents (middle class), commuter ( bedroom communities)

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Sector model

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Homer Hoyt. Aa the city grows the area of the activity expands outward with it in a wedge shape

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Multiple nuclei model

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Harris and Ullman. City develops around more than one center (node)

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Urban realms model

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Blending of many cities to make a metropolitan

34
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3 stages in developing countries

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Pre colonial, colonial and independence

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Pre colonial

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Cities focused in a religious center

36
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Colonial

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Colonist often destroyed native city or built a colonial city next to the native city

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Independence

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Millions of people have migrated from rural areas to cities

38
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Who is urbanizing at a faster rate

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Less developed countries

39
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Mega city

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City with more than 10

Million people

40
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Name 8 world mega cities

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New York, Tokyo, Sao Paul, Mexico City, Mumbai, Delhi, Jakarta and Lagos

41
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By 2030 how many of the the worlds population will live in slums

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2/7

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