Unit 6 Vocab Chapter 15 Flashcards
a variety of community types with a range of population densities
Ecumene
areas (farms and villages) with low concentrations of people
Rural
areas (cities) with high concentrations of people
Urban
primarily residential areas near cities
Suburbs
a place with a permanent human population
Settlement
the process of developing towns and cities
Urbanization
an indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas
Percent Urban
the characteristics at the immediate location (physical features, climate, labor force, etc.)
Site
the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places
Situation
historically consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages
City-state
area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys for fertile farmland
Urban Hearth
a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes; includes surrounding suburbs
Urban Area
a higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries
City
a collection of adjacent cities economically connected; population density is high and continuous.
Metropolitan Area (Metro Area)
another way to define a city; a city with more than 50,000 people and the county it is located in
Metropolitan Statistical Area
cities with more than 10,000 people but less than 50,000
Micropolitan Statistical Area
the focal point in a matrix of connections
Nodal Region
high in cities; population compared to other areas contains a wider variety of people. (diversity in cultures, sexual orientation, language, etc.)
Social Heterogeneity
the shrinking of relative distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation
Time-Space Compression
model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology
Borchert’s Transportation Model
shaped by the distances people could walk
Pedestrian Cities
communities that grew up along rail lines, creating a pinwheel shaped city
Streetcar Suburbs
the process of people moving from cities to the outskirts of cities
Suburbanization
the rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city
Sprawl
encourages sprawl; developers purchase land and build communities beyond the area of a city
Leap-frog Developmennt
rapidly growing communities; have over 100,000 people and are not the largest city
Boomburbs
nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities
Edge Cities
the flow of urban residents leaving cities
Counter-urbanization (Deurbanization)
prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs
Exurbs
when those who live in suburbs return to the city
Reurbanization
have a population of over 10 million
Megacities
continuous urban area with a population of over 20 million OR attributes of a network of urban areas that have grown together to form a larger interconnected urban system
Metacities
a chain of connected cities
Megalopolis
an uninterrupted urban area made up of towns, suburbs, and cities
Conurbation
cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries
World Cities (Global Cities)
ranking based on influence or population size
Urban Hierarchy
command centers on a regional and occasionally national level
Nodal Cities
interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional, national, and global scale.
Urban System
describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop; the rank of a city will predict the size of the city
Rank-size Rule
expensive, needs a large number of people, only occasionally utilized
Higher-order Services
less expensive, requires only a small population, used often
Lower-order Services
when the largest city is more than twice as large as the next largest; more developed and disproportionately powerful
Primate Cities
states that larger and closer places will have more interactions with each other
Gravity Model
explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region
Central Place Theory
a place where people go to receive goods and services
Central Place
the zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services
Market Area
depiction of the shape of market areas; compromise between a square and a circle
Hexagonal Hinterlands
the size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable
Threshold
the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services
Range
