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| Agglomerated Farm Villages |
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| residents are mostly farmers who live in the villages and go outward in the daytime to work the fields. Offer few services to the residents other than a living place. Found in Asia and in many parts of Europe |
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| Rural dwellers scattered throughout the countryside |
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| Agglomerated settlements where plantation agriculture predominated. This is a double group of dwellings; one for management, one for labor |
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some scholars have suggested that the agglomerated farm village developed as a result of the need for protection and the dispersed form because of abundant land |
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Latifundia is probably the result of a desire for control or a pecking order |
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| no design, direct use of materials, no labor specialization in construction, relative uniformity within a given small area. |
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| an artistic creation, presence of a style, technologically advanced materials (for the time), labor specialization in construction, wide variation in appearance within a given small area |
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| a cross between primitive and conscious, but with a style modified from conscious, relative uniformity within a given small area |
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| has gables on the ends, two rooms long, one room wide, two stories tall. Found in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. Originated in the Chesapeake Bay area of the US. The most prevalent type of folk housing. |
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| Two rooms long, one room wide, story and a half high with steep roof and end gables, often raised on bricks or piles |
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| squarer and steeper roof, originated in New England and migrated west through the northern lakes states into the Midwest section of the United States. |
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| defects normally correctable during the course of regular maintenance |
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| one or more defects requiring corrective maintenance for safe, adequate shelter |
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| one ore more defects requiring major repair or rebuilding for safe, adequate shelter |
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| beyond repair, unfit for human habitation |
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the result of a need for more space, a mirror image was build abutting the original, |
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| built as the result of a need for more space, the mirror image was separated by a roofed space |
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| form of the city, based primarily on shape and street pattern. |
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| a typical method for classifying cities based on the activities of greatest importance to that city |
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| Harris Classification scheme |
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classifies all cities of the United States on the basis of the single activity of greatest importance |
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| Reasons for city formation |
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| defense, processing center for raw materials, a market place, administering the surrounding area, cultural reasons |
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| Reasons for Urban explosion |
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economic, social, cultural, |
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| Steps of Urban Development |
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emergence of a specialist, taxation, social control |
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| developed in Western Europe about 1790 and spread to the US a decade later |
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| Mechanical (Conveyor Belt) Revolution |
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| Developed in Western Europe about 1850 and spread to the US about ten years later |
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| started in the US about 1950 and spread to Western Europe |
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| wrote The Central Places of South Germany (1933) which was designed to explain the size, nature, spacing, and location of towns in the belief that ordering principles governed those factors |
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| became a theory of retail activity |
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| offers a modification of the theory in regard to the spacing of urban centers. This concept points out that space between centers of the same rank increases with distance from metropolis. |
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| Dispersed City Hypothesis |
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| identifies a group of closely spaced cities of about the same size with distances between them short enough for customers to choose one of several for shopping |
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