Unit 6 Vocab Flashcards
Site
The character of a place.
Situation
The location of a place relative to another place.
Urbanization
An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements.
Megacities
An urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people.
Metacities
An urban settlement with a total population of excess of 20 million people.
Periphery
Countries that have low levels of productivity, low per capita incomes, and generally low standards of living.
Semi-periphery
Those newly industrialized countries with median standards of living.
Urban Sprawl
Development of new housing sites at relatively low low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
Edge City
A node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
Exurb
The small communities lying beyond the suburbs of a city
Boomburb
A suburban area experiencing significant growth in population and prosperity.
World City
Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy.
Urban Hierarchy
A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions.
suburbanization
The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city.
Urban Decentralization
the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city.
