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AP HuG Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 Vocabulary
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03/06/2013

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Central Business District (CBD)
Definition
The downtown heart of a central city, the CBD is marked by high landvalues, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.
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Synekism
Definition
The possibility of change that results from people living together in cities.
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Urban
Definition
The entire built-up, nonrural area and its population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions and pooulation of such an area that the delimited muncipality (central city) that forms at the heart.
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City
Definition
Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
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Agricultural Village
Definition
A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops.
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Agricultural Surplus
Definition
One of the two components, together with social stratification, that enable he formation of cities; agricultural producction in excess of that which the producer needs for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is trhen sold for consumption by others.
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Social Stratification
Definition
One of the two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of citites; the differentation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige.
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Leadership Class
Definition
Group of decision-makers and organizers in early citieswho controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others.
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First Urban Revolution
Definition
The innovation of the city, which occured independently in five seperate hearths.
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Mesopotamia
Definition
Region of great cities (e.g. Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth, dating back to 3500 BCE, and which was founded in the Fertile Cresent.
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Nile River Valley
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Chronologically the second urban hearth, dating back to 3200 BCE.
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Indus River Valley
Definition
Chronologically, the third urban hearth, dating to 2200  BCE.
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Huang He (Yellow) and Wei (Yangtzi) River Valleys
Definition
Rivers in present-day China; it was the confluence of the Huang He and Wei Riverswhere chronologically the fourth urban hearth was established around 1500 BCE.
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Mesoamerica
Definition
Chronologically the fifth urban hearth, dating to 200 BCE.
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Secondary Hearth
Definition
an early adopter of the cultural practiceor trait that becomesa central locale rfom which the practice or traitfurther diffuses.
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Peru
Definition
The sixth urban hearth
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Acropolis
Definition
Literally "high point of the city." the uppper fortified part of an ancient Greek city, usually devoted to religious purposes.
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Agora
Definition
In ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens, debated, lectured, judged each other, planned  military campaigns, socialized, and traded.
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Site
Definition
The internal physical attributes of a place; its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting.
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Situation
Definition
The external locational attributes of a place; ita relative location or regional postion with refernce to other nonlogical places.
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Urban Morphology
Definition
The study if the physical form and structure of urban places.
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Functional Zonation
Definition
The division of a city into different regions or zones (e.g. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions (e.g. housing or manufacturing).
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Forum
Definition
The focal point of ancient Roman life combining the functions of the ancient Greek acropolis and agora.
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Trade Area Region
Definition
Adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant.
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Rank-Size Rule
Definition
In a model  urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversly proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
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Primate City
Definition
A country's largest city-ranking atop the urban hierarchy-most expensive of the national culture and usually (but not always) the capital city as well.
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Central Place Theory
Definition
Theory proposed by Walter Chrstaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another.
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Sunbelt  Phenomenon
Definition
Th emovement of millions of Americans from northern and northeastern States to the South and Southwest regions (Sunbelt) of the United States.
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Zone
Definition
Area of a city with a relatively uniform land use (e.g. an indiviadual zonation, or residential zone.
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Central City
Definition
The urban area that is not surburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs.
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Suburb
Definition
A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls.
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Suburbanization
Definition
movement otf upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorationg social conditions (percieved and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.
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Concentric Zone Model
Definition
A structual model of the American central sity that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center.
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