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Unit 6 Vocab Chapter 15 Flashcards

1
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a variety of community types with a range of population densities

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Ecumene

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2
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areas (farms and villages) with low concentrations of people

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Rural

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3
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areas (cities) with high concentrations of people

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Urban

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4
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primarily residential areas near cities

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Suburbs

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5
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a place with a permanent human population

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Settlement

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6
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the process of developing towns and cities

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Urbanization

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7
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an indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas

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Percent Urban

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the characteristics at the immediate location (physical features, climate, labor force, etc.)

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Site

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9
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the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places

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Situation

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10
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historically consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages

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City-state

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11
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area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys for fertile farmland

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Urban Hearth

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12
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a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes; includes surrounding suburbs

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Urban Area

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13
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a higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries

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City

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14
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a collection of adjacent cities economically connected; population density is high and continuous.

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Metropolitan Area (Metro Area)

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another way to define a city; a city with more than 50,000 people and the county it is located in

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Metropolitan Statistical Area

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16
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cities with more than 10,000 people but less than 50,000

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Micropolitan Statistical Area

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17
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the focal point in a matrix of connections

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Nodal Region

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18
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high in cities; population compared to other areas contains a wider variety of people. (diversity in cultures, sexual orientation, language, etc.)

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Social Heterogeneity

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19
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the shrinking of relative distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation

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Time-Space Compression

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20
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model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology

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Borchert’s Transportation Model

21
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shaped by the distances people could walk

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Pedestrian Cities

22
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communities that grew up along rail lines, creating a pinwheel shaped city

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Streetcar Suburbs

23
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the process of people moving from cities to the outskirts of cities

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Suburbanization

24
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the rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city

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Sprawl

25
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encourages sprawl; developers purchase land and build communities beyond the area of a city

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Leap-frog Developmennt

26
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rapidly growing communities; have over 100,000 people and are not the largest city

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Boomburbs

27
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nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities

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Edge Cities

28
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the flow of urban residents leaving cities

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Counter-urbanization (Deurbanization)

29
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prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

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Exurbs

30
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when those who live in suburbs return to the city

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Reurbanization

31
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have a population of over 10 million

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Megacities

32
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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

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Metacities

33
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a chain of connected cities

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Megalopolis

34
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an uninterrupted urban area made up of towns, suburbs, and cities

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Conurbation

35
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cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries

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World Cities (Global Cities)

36
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ranking based on influence or population size

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Urban Hierarchy

37
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command centers on a regional and occasionally national level

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Nodal Cities

38
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interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional, national, and global scale.

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Urban System

39
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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

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Rank-size Rule

40
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expensive, needs a large number of people, only occasionally utilized

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Higher-order Services

41
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less expensive, requires only a small population, used often

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Lower-order Services

42
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when the largest city is more than twice as large as the next largest; more developed and disproportionately powerful

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Primate Cities

43
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states that larger and closer places will have more interactions with each other

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Gravity Model

44
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explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region

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Central Place Theory

45
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a place where people go to receive goods and services

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Central Place

46
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the zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services

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Market Area

47
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depiction of the shape of market areas; compromise between a square and a circle

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Hexagonal Hinterlands

48
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the size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable

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Threshold

49
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the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services

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Range

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