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The total number of people divided by the total land area. This is what most people think of as density; how many people per area of land.

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Arithmetic density

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The number of people per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. This is important because it relates to how much land is being used by how many people.

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Physiological density

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The region which innovative ideas originate. Relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from one area to another (diffusion).

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Hearth

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The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another. Ex: spread of AIDS from NY, Cali, & FL

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Relocation diffusion

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The spread of a feature from one place to another in a snowballing process. This can happen in three ways.

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Expansion diffusion

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The spread of an idea from persons or nodes of authority or power to other persons or places (ex: hip hop and rap music)

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Hierarchical diffusion

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The rapid, widespread diffusion of a characteristic throughout the population (ex: ideas placed on the internet)

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Contagious diffusion

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The spread of an underlying principle, even though a characteristic apparently fails to diffuse (ex: PC & Apple competition)

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Stimulus diffusion

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A 19th and early 20th century approach to the study of geography that argued that the general laws sought by human geographers could be found in the physical sciences. Geography was therefore the study of how the physical environment caused human activities.

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Environmental determinism

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The physical environment may limit some human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to their environment.

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Possibilism

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The physical character of a place; what is found at the location and why it is significant.

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Site

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The location of a place relative to other places.

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Situation

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Physical location of geographic phenomena across space.

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Spatial distribution

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Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization. In cartography, the ratio of map distance to ground distance, indicated on a map as a bar graph, representative fraction, and/or verbal statement.

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Scale

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An area within which everyone shares in common one or mare distinctive characteristics. The shared feature could be a cultural value such as common language, or an environmental climate.

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Formal Region

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Area organized around a node or focal point.

The characteristic chosen to define a functional region dominates at a central focus or node and diminishes in important outward. This region is tied to the central point by transportation or communication systems or by economic or functional associations.

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Functional Region

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Place that people believe exists as a part of their cultural identity.

Such regions emerge from people’s informal sense of place rather than from scientific models developed through geographic thought. (Often identified using a mental map- internal representation of a portion of Earth’s surface)

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Vernacular region

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Often referred to as a place’s toponym (the name given to a place on Earth)

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Place name

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The formula that calculates population change. Helps to determine which stage in the demographic transition model a country is in.

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Demographic equation

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Stage 1: Low growth
Stage 2: High growth
Stage 3: Moderate growth
Stage 4: Low growth
Stage 5: Possible stage that includes zero or negative pop. group
Important because its the way that other countries around the world are transformed from less to more developed.

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Demographic transition model (DTM)

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The number of years needed to double a population.

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Doubling time

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The proportion of Earth’s surface occupied by permanent human settlement. Tells how much land has been built upon and how much is left to build on.

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Ecumene

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The annual number of deaths of infants under one year of age, compared with total live births. Shown as infant deaths/ 1000 live births rather than a %.

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Infant mortality rate (IMR)

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The first one to argue that the world’s rate of pop. increase was far outrunning the development of food population.

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Thomas Malthus

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The frequency with which something occurs in space is density.

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Population densities

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The number of farmers per unit of area of farmland.

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Agricultural density

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Population displayed by age and gender on a bar graph.

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Population pyramid

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The percentage by which a population grows in a year.

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Rate of natural increase

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When the crude birth rate equals the crude death rate and the natural increase rate approaches zero.

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Zero population growth

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When one family member migrates to a new country and the rest of the family follows shortly after.

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Chain migration

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People removed from their countries and forced to live in other countries because of war, natural disaster and government.

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Forced Migration

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Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in an area and inversely related to the distance other people must travel to access it.

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Gravity model

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Factors that include people to leave old residences and move to new locations.

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Push-pull factors

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People forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion.

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Refugee

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Process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture.

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Assimilation

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The geographic study of human environmental relationships.

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Cultural ecology

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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.

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Culture

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Center of economic activity

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Core

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Outlying region of economic activity

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Periphery

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The faithfulness to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involves a faith in a spiritual nature. Important to HUG because man wars have been fought over it.

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Religion

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Belief that objects such as plants, stones, thunderstorms, earthquakes, etc. have spirit and life.

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Animism

42
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Third of the world’s major universalizing religions. has 365m adherents esp. in China and Southeast Asia.

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Buddhism

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Monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in the New Testament. Most popular religion in the world.

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Christianity

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Religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located. Most religions start out as this.

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Ethnic religion

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Created in India, approximately one billion followers. Heaven is not the ultimate goal in life. Third largest in the world.

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Hinduism

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The submission to the will of god. Monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a key religious figure. Second largest religion in the world.

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Islam

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It is the religion of ancient Hebrews, said to be one of the first monotheistic faiths. Many other religions have been based off of it.

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Judaism

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Belief in one god

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Monotheism

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Belief in many gods

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Polytheism

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Conflict between religions. ex: Israel-Palestine

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Religious Conflict

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Belief that humans should be based on facts and not religious beliefs.

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Secularism

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Afrikaans for apartness, it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa for 1948 to 1994. Created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over black majority.

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Apartheid

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Political term used when referring to the fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries.

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Balkanization

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Country lying between two more powerful countries that are hostile to each other.
ex: Mongolia, between Russia and China

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Buffer state

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Religious, political, economic, conflict, etc. that causes disunity in a state.

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Centrifugal

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An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for the state.

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Centripetal

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The attempt by a a country to establish settlements and impose political and economic control and principles. Big thing in the 17th through 20th century.

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Colonialism

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Movement of American and European colonies gaining independence.

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Decolonization

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War between ethnic groups.

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Ethnic conflict

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Supernational and intergovernmental union of 27 democratic member states of Europe.

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European Union

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Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

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Gerrymandering

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Central region of a country or continent.

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Heartland

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Fringe of a country or continent.

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Rimland

64
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Through time nomadic people noticed the growing of plants in a cycle and began to domesticate them and use for their own use.

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Agricultural Origins

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The deliberate effect to modify a portion of the Earth’s surface through the cultivation of crops and raising of livestock.

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Agriculture

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The revolution of biotechnology and the use of it in societies. Genetically modified crops.

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Biorevolution

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Agriculture used to produce a sale off the farm.

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Commercial Agriculture

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Primary: lumbering, mining
Secondary: manufacturing products
Tertiary: transportation, communication, utilities
Quaternary
Quinary
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Economic Activity

69
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When humans first domesticated plants (about 8000 BC).

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First agricultural revolution

70
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When humans gain food by hunting for animals, gathering plants, etc.

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Hunting and Gathering

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Defined cultural landscape, area fashioned from nature by a cultural group.

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Carl O. Sauer

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Allowed a shift in the work force beyond subsistence farming to allow labor to work in factories.

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Second agricultural revolution

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“Green revolution” and was a rapid diffusion of new agricultural techniques between the 1970’s and 1980’s.

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Third agricultural revolution

74
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Made the model that showed different rings associated with crops.

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Von Thunen

75
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Describes pattern of distribution of MDC’s and LDC’s.

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Core-periphery model

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States that LDCs tend to have a higher dependency ratio, the ratio of the number of people under 15 or over 64 to the number in the labor force.

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Dependency Theory

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Aggregate index of development, takes economic, social, and demographic factors into account.

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Human Development Index

78
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Used to distinguish LDC’s from MDC’s.

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Measures of development

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Refers to the economic control that MDC’s are sometimes believed to have over LDC’s.

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Neocolonialism

80
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Developed the “stages of growth” model of economic development.

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W.W. Rostow

81
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Countries in developing world independent of their political status.

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Third World

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Refers to the perspective that seeks to explain the dynamics of the “capitalist world economy” as a “total social system”

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World Systems Theory

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Industrial arrangement of machines, equipment, and workers for the continuous flow of work pieces in mass production operations.

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Assembly line production

84
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Built up area consisting of a central city and its surrounding suburbs.

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Agglomeration

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A neighborhood, usually a slum or lower class.

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Barridas

86
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Explains price and demand for land increases closer to the CBD.

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Bid-rent Theory

87
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Central Business District

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CBD

88
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Created the central place theory.

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Walter Christaller

89
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City grows outward from a central area (CBD, transition zone, workers’ home zone, residences zone, commuter’s zone)

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Concentric Zone Model

90
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Net migration from urban to rural areas

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Counterurbanization

91
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Process when low cost neighborhoods are renovated by the middle class to increase property values.

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Gentrification

92
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Poor section of a city

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Ghetto

93
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Development of worldwide patterns of economic relationships

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Globalization

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