UNIT 6 - CH 15 Flashcards

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Basic industry

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Iron and steel industry - in the 19th and 20th century - which was considered the foundational economic activity

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Boomburb

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A suburb that has grown rapidly in to a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

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Christaller’s Central Place Theory

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A theory formed by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations

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Decentralization

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Movement away from the central center - new areas develop “streetcar suburbs” - develop outside of core areas of cities - “railroad suburbs” - areas that develop due to rail access expanding to surrounding areas of the city

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Edge city

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Type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city

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Exurb

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Fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

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Gravity model

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A model that holds the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service

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Hamlet

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Small village

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Infill

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Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas. Helps to counter sprawl because it focuses on areas already served by transportation and other public infrastructure

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Megacity

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A city with more that 10 million people

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Metacity

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A city with a population over 20 million metropolitan area - a city and its surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

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Primate city

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A city that far exceeds in population size and influence

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Range

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The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a good or service

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Rank-size rule

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A pattern of settlements in a country, such as the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. The rule explains how population size of citied within a country may be distributes. It uses a country’s largest city as a baseline and ranks all other cities in relation to it

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Redevelopment

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Focuses on converting an existing property to another, more desirable use

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Revitalization

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Focuses on instilling new life into a community by reusing or renovating buildings and beautifying an area through landscaping rural area - an area of small towns or farms

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Suburb

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A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls

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Suburbanization

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Movement of people from the central city to the outskirts - causes the land area that a metropolitan area takes up to expand, but the population of the central city does not necessarily grow

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Telecommunications

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Communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcasting

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Threshold

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The minimum number of people needed to support a good or service

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Transportation (system)

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Waterways, railroads, and highways that provide a means for raw materials to get to factories and goods to get to market and for workers to access jobs

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Urban

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City urban area - a city and its surrounding suburbs

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Urban cluster

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In the United States, an urban area with between 2500 and 49,999 inhabitants

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Urban hierarchy

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A ranking of cities based on their size and functional complexity

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Urban sprawl

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Urban areas expand in an unplanned and uncontrolled way, covering large expanses of land in housing, commercial development and roads

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Urbanization

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The process of development of dense concentrations of people into settlements

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Urbanized area

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In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants

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World Cities (Global Cities)

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Centers of economic and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce (examples include: New York City, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires…)