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Urban Geography Flashcards

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City

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Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.

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Urban morphology

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The study of the physical form and structure of urban places.

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Urban

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The entire build-up, nonrural area and it’s population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages.

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Agricultural village

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A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture

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Agricultural surplus

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Agricultural production in excess of that which the producer need for his or her own sustenance and the rest is sold for profit.

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Social stratification

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The differentiation of society onto classes based on wealth power, production, and prestige.

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Leadership class

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Group of decision-makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources and often the lives of others

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First urban revolution

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The innovation of the city which occurred independence in five separate hearths

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Mesopotamia

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Region of great cities located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The first urban hearth dating back to 3500 BCE, in the fertile crest

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Nile River Valley

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The second urban hearth dating to 3200 BCE

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Indus River Valley

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The third urban hearth, dating back to 2200 BCE

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Huang He Wei River Valleys

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Rivera I’m present day china, fourth urban hearth established around 1500 BCE

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Mesoamerica

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The fifth urban hearth dating back to 200 BCE

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Acropolis

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The high point of Ancient Greece usually devoted for religious purposes

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Agora

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A public market place (ancient Greece)

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Site

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The absolute location

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Situation

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The relative location of a place

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Forum

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The focal point of ancient roman life combining the functions of the Ancient Greek acropolis and agora

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Trade area

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Region adjacent to every Town and city within which it’s influence is dominant

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Rank size rule

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In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to it’s rank in the hierarchy.

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Central place theory

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Where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another

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Sunbelt phenomenon

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The movement of millions of Americans from the northern and northeastern to the south and southwest.

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Functional zonation

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The division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes of functions

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Zone

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Area of a city with a relatively uniform land use.

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Central business district

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The downtown heart of a central city the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce and the clustering of the tallest buildings

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Central city

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The urban area that isn’t a suburban. Generally, the older part of the city

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Suburb

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A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city

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Suburbanization

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Movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions

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Concentric zone model

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A model of the American central city the suggests the existence of five conventic land use rings arranged around a center

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Edge cities

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The shifting focus of urbanization in the US away from the CBD toward new loci of economic activity at the urban fringe

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Urban realm

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A spatial generalization of the larger the twentieth century city on the US (a widely dispersed multi-centered metropolis with independent zones)

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Griffin-ford- model

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A model of the Latin American city showing a blend of traditional elements of Latin Americans cultures of globalization

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Disamenity sector

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The very poorest parts of cities that aren’t connected to regular city services

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McGee model

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A model showing similar band-use patterns of medium sized cities of southwest Asia

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Shantytowns

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Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities dominated by crude dwellings and shelters

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Zoning laws

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Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed on certain areas

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Redlining

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A real estate practice in North America where members o minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to buy houses in white neighborhoods

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Blockbusting

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Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents stir up fears of a neighborhood decline

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Commercialization

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The transformation of an area of a city into a area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity

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Gentrification

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The rehabilitation of deteriorated often abandoned housing of low income inner city residents

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Tear-downs

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Houses bought in many American suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with McMansions

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McMansions

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  • super size

- similar to each other

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Urban sprawl

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A widely dispersed multi centered metropolis consisting of increasingly independent zones

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New urbanism

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An urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and Suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods

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Gated communities

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Restricted neighborhoods that are often gated in

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Informal economy

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Economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government

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World cities

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Dominant cities in the global political economy

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Primate city

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A county’s largest city

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Spaces of consumption

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Areas of a city, the main purpose is to encourage people to buy stuff

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