Urban Geo Flashcards
Central Business District
A concentration of business and commerce in the city’s downtown.
Urban
The built-up space of the central city and suburbs.
City
A mass collection of people and buildings clustered togethered
Social Stratification
Emergence of social classes
First urban revoloution
The innovation of the city occurred independently in six different hearths.
Urban Hearths (Mesopotamia, etc…)
The Areas where the world’s first cities were established or evolved.
Secondary Hearth
An early adopter of a cultural practice or trait that becomes a central locale from which the practice or trait further diffuses.
Second urban revolution
Large cities of industry developed in quick succession and urbanization was prevalent.
Site
Its absolute location, often chosen for advantages in trade or defense, or as a center for religious practice.
Situation
Its position in relation to its role in the larger, surrounding context.
Trade areas
The adjacent region within which a city’s influence is dominant
Rank-size rule
In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
Primate city
State’s leading city economically and culturally.
Central place theory
Set of assumptions for the perfect layout of the urban hierarchy.
Functional zonation
The division of the city into certain regions (zones) for certain purposes (functions).
Central city
The older city, not the newer suburbs.
Suburbs
An outlying functionally uniform part of an urban area and is often (but not always) adjacent to the central city.
Suburbanization
People and businesses from the city move to land previously outside the urban area.
Edge city
an urban area with a large suburban residential and business area surrounding it.
Galactic city
Complex urban area in which centrality of functions is no longer significant.
Megacities
an urban or metropolitan area which has a population over 10 million people.
Concentric zone model
describes expansion in concentric rings around the central business district.
Sector model
A model of urban land use proposed in 1939 by land economist Homer Hoyt.
Multiple nuclei model
A city that does not have one central area, but instead has several nodes that act as regional centers for economic or residential activity within one larger city.
