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| Burgess' Concentric Zone Model |
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| Urban expansion occurs in concentric rings away from the CBD (moves in order from CBD to low-income to working-class to middle-class to weathy.). |
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| Demographic Transition Model |
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| Process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates/high rates of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates/low rates of natural increase. |
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| Describes the attractive force between two larger cities, which have greater drawing power than smaller cities. |
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| Different classes and residential areas grow outward along distinct radii; all have access to the CBD. |
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| Ibero-American (Central American) City Model |
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| Has a central CBD with a prestigious spine of elite residential sectors, an adjacent zone of modest housing, and an outer ring zone of peripheral squatter settlements. |
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| Harris& Ullman's Multiple-Nuclei Model |
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| Has different areas with smaller subgroups, with a CBD that isn't located in the center. The city spreads outwards from more than one node of growth. |
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| Graphs that represent population by age and gender; they sometimes represent stages of the demographic transition. |
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| Poses that three source areas of agriculture gave rise to a great language family |
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| Rostow's Modernization Model |
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| Lists the stages required for a society to modernize (Traditional, Pre-conditions for Takeoff, Take-Off, Drive to Maturity, High Consumption) |
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