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| a theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of people's shopping behavior |
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| serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation |
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| economic activities that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or renumeration |
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| condition in which cities grow more rapidly than the jobs and housing they can sustain |
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| condition in which the population of the largest city in an urban system is disproportionately large in relation to the second- and thrid-largest cities |
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| statistical regularity in size distributions of cities and regions |
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| city that is seen as the embodiment of surprising and disturbing changes in economic, social, and cultural life |
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| residential developments that occur on land that is neither owned not rented by its occupants |
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| social and demographic composition of city districts and neighborhoods |
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| physical structure and organization of cities |
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| interdependent set of urban settlements within a specified region |
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| way of life, attitudes, values, and patterns of behavior fostered by urban settings |
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