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Vocab Check 6.1 Flashcards

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Origin (Site and Situation)

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cities are the primary centers of change and culture (earliest cities = first hearth)

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Site

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the physical characteristics of a place

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Situation

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the relative location of the urban settlement

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Examples (Site and Situation)

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Galveston hit by hurricane, Singapore trying to become entrepot center, Silk Road hit by lucrative business, Radiator Springs dying when the highway was created

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Transportation and Communication Infrastructure

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allows cities to spread out, this increases the suburbanization in a place

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Causes of Population Growth

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if there is a younger population the population will continue to grow because people will continue having kids, it will also grow when people migrate to a place

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Migration

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When people move from their original country to a new one

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Economic Development

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the activities to make money happening in a city

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Basic Industry

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the base income of the city, it doesn’t go through the community (college, factories, etc. )

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Non-basic Industry

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the money that is being circulated throughout the community (hair salon, grocery store, etc.)

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Government Policies On Population Growth

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the government can limit the amount of babies or influence people to make more or they can make a city more or less favorable

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Urban Size

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cities are in all different sizes

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Megacities

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have 10 million people

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Mecacities

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have 20 million people

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Counter Urbanization

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when people that live in urban cities move to rural areas

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Urbanization

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the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas

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Suburbanization

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The spread of people from an urban center outwards, caused by the expansion of technology (cars, street carts, etc.)

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Urban Sprawl

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The movement of people out to the suburbs of cities; urban people sprawling from the center

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Decentralization

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transfer of policy decisions to lower level of administration districts

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Edge Cities

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cities on the edge of a major central point; there are cities like this outside of Tokyo,the homes are cheaper

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Exurbs

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mix of rural and suburban style development

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Boomburbs

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rapidly growing and remains suburban characteristics with population of typical urban cities

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Rank-Size Rule

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states that population size tends to equal the population of the largest city divided by the rank of the city (population of given city = largest city pop./n (n=rank of given city))

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Primate Cities

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disproportionally large compared to next biggest city

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Gravity Model

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the larger the urban area, the greater the “gravity”; so the smaller the area, the less gravity there is

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Hamlet

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provides some basic services to the people living in the area and nearby; a convinance store and churches

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Village

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offers several dozens of services, there is some specialization

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Town

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ia larger then a village and has a higher level of specialized services

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Small City

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more specialization and a larger hinterlands than a town

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Conurbanations

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the largest citys, at the top of the higharchy chain

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Communication and Transportation Infrastructure (World Cities)

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dommination in the surrounding area, major manufactoring centers with ports and container facilities,

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Economic Influence (World Cities)

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have several multinational corperations, financial headquarters, best facilities for health and education

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Political Influence (World Cities)

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considerable decision making power on daily basis and global level, high level of employees in service and information sectors

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Cultural Influence (World Cities)

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centers of new ideas and culture, centers of media and communication, high diversity

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Patterns of Land Use

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The most common land uses are residential, industriall, retail, office, agriculture, and recreational

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Bid-Rent Theory

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land loses value further from CBD

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Industrialization

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guides urban growth, people will not go places they cant reach via roads or other infastructure

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Recreational

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people could drive further to hang out with people, the cars caused the development of strip malls, where people could buy as they drove by

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Agricultural

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people moved away from the farms because less people were needed and life was good in the cities

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Residential

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more people moved into the suburbs because they could commute to work in a lesser amount iof time because of the improved technology of cars

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Low-Density Housing

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houses are on large plots of land on the urban fringe

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Medium-Density Housing

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larger then apartments but more closely packed houses, may share walls

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High-Density Housing

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where many people livein one house, high rise apartments, or many people live within a tight low rise building

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Transportation

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new developments in transportation caused changes in how cities continued forming, they were more spread out

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Technological Capabilities

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expand the distancee that you can travel and reduces the time it takes to travel further distances

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Influence on Spatial Patterns

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improvement in transportation has caused cities to expand over larger areas creating edge cities and suburbs around the CBD

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Influence on Social Development

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affects the relations of regions core and peripahary, and the exersize of civic participation; if its hard to get gathering places nobody will go

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Sequent Occupance

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nmultiple different cultures and people have been in one place at different times; you will see reminance of previous residant

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Original Development

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when the and was first built or converted from agriculture to infastructure

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Deterioration

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over time the houses that used to be the newest and best, become aged and are less apealing then they once were

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Gentrification

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the procces of renovating deteriorating houses so they conform to middle class taste

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Sprawl

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people moving outward from a central point to areas further away or on the edge of the hub

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Infilling

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the process by which population density in an urban center is increased by building on waste land or underused land

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Burgess Concentric zone Model

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oldest model based on chicago, rings around a center point; Rings: CBD, zone of transition: factories into residential neighborhoods, working class: live in apartments, zone of better residants: nice but small single family homes, commuter zone: for those who can afford transport into the city

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Hoyt Sector Model

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based on concentric model with added railroads and streetcars, factories are centered around railroads, upperclass in located around street cars, working class by factories, and middle class fills in between these two

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Harris and Ullman Multiple-Nuclei Model

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in chigago but taks in to account car ownership, as the nuclie developes in industry so do trasportation hubs, low class lives near industrial zones, upper class live furthest away from the center and factories, middle class fits in the middle

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Galactic City Model

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developed on urban landscape so heavy suburbanization, the industry is outside of the town which leaves old ones in decay, dominated by automobile, most people live in the suburban areas, there is high amounts of runoff which increases flood risks

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Latin America City Model

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planned cities, influenced by roman culture, the wealthy live along the spine, where the middle and lower class live further outsurrounded by the poverty outside the city

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Southeast Asia City Model

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there is no CBD, squatter settlements found around the city without infrastructure, soreads from a port, alien commercial zone is where chinease immagrents set up shop, western commercial zone is where europen and north american businesses operate, new industrial zone is the newest factories that were built

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Sub-Saharan Africa City Model

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European origional settlement as the CBD, the market zone and Traditional CBD are clumped by it surrounded by ethnic and mizxed neighborhoods and outlined by informal satalite townships

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Infrastructure

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more infrastructure = urban growth

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