Modules 44-45 Flashcards
Urbanization
The movement of people from rural areas to cities.
City
A relatively large, density populated settlement with a much larger population than rural towns and villages; cities serve as important commercial, governmental, and central hubs for their surrounding regions.
Urban
Relating to a city
Agricultural Surplus
crop yeilds that are sufficient to feed more people than the farmers and his/her family.
Socioeconomic Stratification
The structuring of society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (government or ruling class) that exercise control over goods and people.
First Urban Revolution
The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities.
Urban hearth areas
Regions in which the worlds first cities evolved.
Site
An absolute location of a place on Earth.
Situation
The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places.
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than owned and run by the state.
Communism
An economic and political system in which all property is publicly owned and managed.
Streetcar Suburbs
A settlement outside of a city with street car lines; the streetcars take residents into and out of the city easily.
Second Urban Revolution
The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth.
Redevelopment
A set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times.
Metropolis
A very large and densely populated city particularly the capital or major city of a country or region.
Urban Area
Any self-governing place in the U.S. that contains at least a,500 people/
Urbanized areas
In the U.S. a urban area with 50,000 people or more.
Urban Clusters
In the U.S. an urban area with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.
Metropolitan Areas
In the U.S. an region with at least one urbanized area at its core.
Micropolitan areas
In the U.S. a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people at its cores.
Suburbs
Populated areas on the outskirts of a city.
Urbanization rate
The percentage of a nation’s population living in towns and cities.
Suburbanization
The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city.
Sprawl
The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner.
Automobile Cities
Cities who’s size and shape are dictated by and almost require individual automobile ownership.
Decerteralize
in an urban context, to move businesses operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs.
Edge cities
A concentration of businesses, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or central business district.
Boomburbs
A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government.
Infill development
The building of new retail, businesses, or residential spaces on a vacant or underused parcels in already developed areas.
Exurbs
A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families.
