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the maximum population size the land can sustain indefinitely given the food, water, habitat supply |
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Arithmetic population density |
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the population of a country or region expressed as an average per unit area – the figure is derived by dividing the population of the area unit by the number of square kilometers or miles that make up the unit – same as population density – measure of total population relative to land size – population density assumes an even distribution of the population over the land - |
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Physiologic population density |
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| the number of people per unit area of arable land |
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the expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact – globalization transcends state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales |
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| One of the two components together with socail stratification, that enable the formation of cities. Agricultural production for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is then sold for comsumption by others. |
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| One of the two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities, the differentiation and society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige. |
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| Group of desicion makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources and often the lives of others. |
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| The innovation of the city, which occured independently in five seperate different cities. |
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| Region of great cities (EX UR AND BABYLON) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; the first urban hearth dating to 3500 BCE and which was funded in the Fertile Crescent. |
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| The second hearth of urbanization dating to 3200 BCE |
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| the third hearth of urbanization dating to 2200 BCE |
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| (YELLOW AND YANGTZI) rivers in present day china: it was at the confluence of the Huang He and Wei rivers where chronologically the fourth hearth was established around 1500 BCE |
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| Chronologically the fifth urban hearth, dating to 200 BCE. |
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| literally ''high point of the city.'' the upper fortified part of an acient greek city, usually devoted to religous purposes. |
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| in acient greece, public spaces were citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, scocialized and traded |
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| the internal physical attributes of a place including it's absolute location, it's spatial character,and physical setting. |
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| the focal point of acient roman life combining the functions of the acient greek acropolis and agora. |
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| the external locations attributes of a place;, it's relative location of regional position with refrence to other nonlocal places. |
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| region adjecent to every town and city and town within wich it's influence is dominant |
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| in a modle urban hierarchy, the idea that the proportation to it's rank in the hierarchy |
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| theory purposed by walter christaller that explains how and where central places in the |
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