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Focuses on residential patterns explaining where the wealthy in a city choose to live. He argued that the city grows outward from the center, so a low-rent area could extend all the way from the CBD to the city's outer edge, creating zones which are shaped like pieces of a pie. |
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Separating types of human based on anything distinguishing two people; such as race and sex. Prevalent in the United States until the early 70's. |
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| Settlement form (nucleated, dispersed, elongated) |
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| nucleated: a compact, closely packed settlement sharply decorated from adjoining farmlands; dispersed: characterized by a much lower density of population and the wide spacing of individual homesteads; elongated: a state whose territory is long and narrow in shape |
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| mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers |
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| the physical character of place; what is found at the location and why it is significant |
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| the location of a place relative to other places |
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| a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor |
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| social organization based on established patterns of social interaction between different relationships |
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| separation of tasks within a system |
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| An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
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| Street pattern (grid, dendritic, access, control) |
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the way in which streets are designed;
grid: streets are arranged in a grid-like fashion; dendritic: characterized by fewer streets organized based on the amount of traffic each is intended to carry; access: provides access to a subdivision, housing project, or highway; control: allows highways or housing projects to be supervised |
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| residential areas on the outskirts of a city or large town |
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| a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities |
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| landscape that depicts symbols |
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| An apartment building, especially one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety or maintenance up keep. |
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The minimum number of people needed to support the service.
Significance: Many service companies when thinking of a location will consider the threshold or hte number of people that are needed fro them to stay in business. |
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| an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city |
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a group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics.
Significance: Many of the underclass live in the inner cities which face tough issues making it hard for them. |
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Employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
Significance: Since there is a competition for jobs in some areas especially those that are highly urbanized means that there might be a fraction of people who are underemployed. |
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The rate at which an urban area grows.
Significance: It lets geographers know the fastest growing urban areas and analyze their growth. |
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| Services that are provided in a certain urban area |
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| An area, like Mesopotamia or the Nile Valley, where large cities first existed. |
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| Is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas. |
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| A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions. |
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| Study of water in Urban areas and how to treat it. (Pollution) |
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| The study of the physical form and structure of urban places. |
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The process by which the population of cities grow.
Significance: More and more areas have become urban over the course of history. Now the United States is fairly split between rural and urban areas dividing the land mas of the nation. |
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| Population that lives in Urban areas. (Cities) |
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| Most important centers of economic power and wealth. |
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| area of mixed commercial and residential land uses surrounding the CBD; mixture of growth, change, and decline |
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| dividing an area into zones or sections reserved for different purposes such as residence and business and manufacturing etc |
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