Unit 6- 49 words

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inhabited land

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ecumene

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a place with a permanent human population

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settlement

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areas with low concentration of people

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rural

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areas with high concentration of people

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urban

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primarily residential areas near cities

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suburbs

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an ongoing process that does not end once a city is formed.

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urbanization

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an indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compares to those that live in rural areas

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percent urban

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describes the characteristics at the immediate location

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site

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refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places

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situation

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consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages.

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city-state

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area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soils allowed for an agricultural surplus

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urban hearth

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defined as a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, and includes the surrounding suburbs

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urban area

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The higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries

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city

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a collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across which population density is high and continuous

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metropolitan area

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another way to define a city. Consists of a city of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social ad economic integration, or connection, with the urban core.

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Metropolitan statistical area

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focal point in a matrix of connections

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nodal region

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particularly high in cities, meaning that the population cities, as compared to other areas, contains a greater variety of people

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social heterogeneity

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the shrinking “time-distance”, or relative distance, between locations because of improved methods of transportation and communication

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time-space compression

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model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology. Each new form of technology produced a new system that changed how people moved themselves and goods in and between urban areas.

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Brochert’s transportation model

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cities shaped by distances people could walk

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pedestrian cities

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communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged, often creating a pinwheel shaped city

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streetcar suburbs

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involves the process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities

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suburbanization

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rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city and occurs for numerous reasons:
growth of suburbs, lower land costs in suburbs compared to inner cities, lower density single family housing, weak planning laws, the continuing growth of car culture

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sprawl

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where developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the city’s built area

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leap-frog development

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nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities.

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edge cities

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the counter-flow of urban residents leaving cities is known as...

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counter-urbanization or deurbanization

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the prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

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exurbs

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as some suburbanites return to live in the city

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reurbanization

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rapidly growing communities

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boomburgs

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have a population of more than 10 million people

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megacities

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continuous urban area with a population greater than 20 million people. Attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown together to form a larger interconnected urban system

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metacities

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goes back to the early 1900s and describes a chain of connected cities

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megalopolis

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an uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs, and cities.

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conurbation

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cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries

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world or global cities

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ranking based on influence or population size

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urban hierarchy

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command centers on a regional and occasionally national level

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nodal cities

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interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional, national, and global scale

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urban system

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describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop

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rank-size rule

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usually expensive, need a large number of people to support, and are only occasionally utilized

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higher-order services

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usually less expensive, require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis.

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lower-order services

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if the largest city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next larges city, the largest city is said to have...

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primate city

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states that larger and closer places will have more interactions than places that are smaller and farther from each other

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gravity model

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explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region

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central place theory

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a location where people go to receive goods and services.

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central place

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zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services

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market place

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Christaller chose to depict these market areas, because this shape was a compromise between a square- in which people living in the corners would be farther from the central place- and a circle- in which there would be overlapping areas of service

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hexagonal hinterlands

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the size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable

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threshold

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the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services

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range

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cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants, the country in which they are located, and surrounding counties with a high degree of integration

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micropolitan statistical area