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| study of the physical form and structure of urban Places. |
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| conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. |
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| Population of such an are that delimited municapality that forms heart, non-rural. |
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| relatively, small, egalitarian village, most population is involved in agriculture. |
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| an over surplus of agriculture that helps with formation of cities. |
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| One of two components with an agricultural surplus that enables formation of cities. Classes are formed based on wealth, power, production, and prestige. |
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| urban elite, consisted of decision makers and organizers who controlled resources and lives of others in early cities. |
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| innovation of the city, occured independently in 5 seperate hearths. |
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| region of great cities between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It was the First Urban Hearth with ties 3,500 BCE |
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| Second urban hearth, 3200 B.C.E. |
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| Third urban Hearth, 2200 B.C.E. |
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| Rivers in present-day China; confluence of Huang He and Wei Rivers was 4th urban hearth in 1500 B.C.E. |
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| 5th urban hearth, 200 B.C.E. |
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| "High point of the city." Upper fortified part of an ancient Greek city, devoted to religion. |
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| In ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded. |
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| internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, spatial character and physical setting. |
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| focal point of ancient Roman life combining the functions of ancient Greek acropolis and agora. |
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| external locational attributes of a place; relative location or regional position with reference to other non-local places. |
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| region adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant. |
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| in a model urban hierarchy, the idea that population of a city/town will be inversely proportional to rank in hierarchy. |
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| Theory proposed by Walter Christaller explaining how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to each. |
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| Movement of million of Americans from North and North-Eastern states to the South/South-West Regions of the U.S. |
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| division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions |
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| area of a city with a relatively uniform land use. |
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| Central Business District |
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| downtown heart of a central city, CBDd is marked by high land values, concentrations of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings. |
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| urban area that isn't subruban; generally the older or orginal city surrounded by newer suburbs. |
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| subsidiary urban area surrounding and connecting to central city. |
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| Movement of upper and middles-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution and deteriorating social conditions. |
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| structural model of American central city suggesting the existence of 5 concentric land-use rings arranged arround a common center. |
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| describes shifting focus of urbanization in U.S. away from CBD toward new location of economic activity at urban fringe. |
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| spatial generalization of the large, late 20th century city in U.S. widely dispersed, mulitcentered metropolis made of ind. zones focused on suburban downtown. |
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| Proposed by Ernst Griffin and Larry Ford, model of Latin American city showing traditional blend of element of Latin America culture with focus of urbanization and reshaping. |
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| Poorest parts of cities, sometimes not connected to regular city services and is controlled by gangs or drug lords. |
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| T.G. McGee formed model showing similar land-use patterns among medium-sized cities of S.E. Asia. |
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| unplanned slum development on margins of cities dominated by crude dwelling or shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, or cardboard. |
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| Legal restrictions on land use determining what types of building and economic activities are allowed in certain areas. |
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| discriminatory real estate practice in N. America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining needed money to purchase houses in neighborhoods dominated by whites. |
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| Rapid change in racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when agents and others scare-neighborhood and those of color move to previously white dominated areas. |
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| transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents/tourists to increase economic productivity. |
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| Rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned housing of low-income inner-city residents. |
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| homes bough in many American suburbs with intent of tearing them down and replacing with larger, McMansions. |
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| homes reffered to because of their "super size" and similarity in appearance to others. Built up on tear-downs. |
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| unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land with little concern for urban planning. |
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| urban design calling for development, urban revitalization, suburban reforming making walkable neighborhoods with diversity of housing and jobs. |
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| restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions often fenced in and entry is limited to residents and their guests. |
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| economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by government. |
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| dominant city in terms of role in global political economy. Strategic control. |
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| Country's largest city, urban hierarchy, often capital. |
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| encouragement of people to consume goods driven by media. |
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