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APHG Flash Cards Ex. Credit
15 flashcards going over Unit 7 in APHG
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Geography
9th Grade
03/22/2013

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Central Business District (CBD)
Definition
An area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. Usually one of the oldest districts, has a lot of infrastructure, buildings,retail etc;.
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Range
Definition
The distance a customer will drive to receive a service or good, or the distance from which a market will receive customers.
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Threshold
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The amount of customers a business needs to "stay afloat" Without enough customers, there isn't enough income, without enough income, there is no support for the business.
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Land issues in CBDs
Definition
Limited sites or area can lead to competition and high prices for land; in NYC it costs about 100 million dollars to get a hectare of land.
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Suburbs
Definition
Are speedily gaining in population due to cheaper land costs, less traffic, bigger homes, etc; Since WWII the sales have risen 5% each year. Have shopping malls instead of separate markets.
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Gentrification
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The process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods.
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Planned Community
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An area in which the developers of the area plot out each house and build the community from scratch.
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Models of Urban Structures
Definition
Developed to explain where different types of people tend to live (in an urban area). There are three different models; Concentric Zone Model (or Burgess Model), Sector Model (or Hoyt Model), and Multiple Nuclei Model (or the Harris and Ullman Model).
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Squatters
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People who settle on land they don't legally own. They settle in unused areas with the hopes that they can achieve legal rights to the land.
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Historical Preservation
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A professional endeavor that seeks to fix, preserve, and protect buildings, places, objects, landscapes, etc. of historical significance. Some states have historic districts that are from a certain era in the region's history.
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Garden City Movement
Definition
homes designed to look like European farms with front lawns and were originally built for the growing urban middle class of Chicago in Riverside, Illinois.
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Mixed Use Buildings
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buildings that serve as a commercial profit and a house.
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Lateral Commuting
Definition
occurs within the commuter zone of the city but both work and home are outside the central city.
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Counter-urbanization
Definition
Inner city or suburban residents move to rural areas to escape congestion, crime, pollution, etc. of the urban landscape.
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Town v.s. City
Definition
A town is a clustered settlement w/ a CBD but is smaller than and less functionally complex than a city.
A city is a conglomeration of people and buildings who/ that serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics
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