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| Ratio between workers employed in the basic sector and those employed in the nonbasic sector |
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| Basic sector of a local economy includes any industry that brings money from outside the area. Nonbasic sector includes all industry that supports and services the local community |
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| Sociologist who crated the concentric zone model in 1923 |
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| The megalopolis area that spreads from Boston to beyond Washington, DC. |
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| Areas of approximately 5,000 people that correspond whenever possible to neighborhood boundaries |
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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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| Area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
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| A city surrounded by suburbs |
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| Views urban settlements as centers for the distribution of economic goods and services to surrounding nonurban populations |
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| Provided the central place theory model for settlement patterns |
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| Describe nucleated settlements that perform multiple residential and nonresidential function, and include central business district and surrounding residences |
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| Self-governing communities that included nearby countryside |
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| Noncompeting market areas |
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| Views cities as growing outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings |
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| Cooperative agencies consisting of representatives from local governments in the region |
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| A relatively stable slum area that radiates from the central market to the outermost zone of peripheral squatter settlements consists of high-density shantytowns |
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| CLusters of large buildings away from the CBD |
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| Producing goods for areas outside the city |
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| Increasing proportion of the poor who are women |
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| Period between 4000 and 2000 B.C.E when the major urban hearths came into existance |
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| Once housing in an area has been renovated, the neighborhood often begins to attract middle-class residents |
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| GHETTOS: In many American cities, black Americans and Latinos are segregated into nuclear communities that are frequently among the most undesirable neighborhoods with dilapidated housing, high crime rates, and inadequate schools. GHETTOIZATION: Process of being forced into the Ghetto |
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| Rings of open space where houses may not be built |
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| Small cluster of farmer's houses with few basic services |
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| Geographers that developed the multiple-nuclei model in 1945 |
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| Hierarchy Of Central Places |
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| Small centers providing lower-order services than large centers do |
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| Land economist who developed the sector model in 1939 |
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| The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area |
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| Ringed zone that contains much more modest housing and transitions to the outer-ring poverty |
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| Where factories attracted laborers from rural areas and other countries to tenements constructed to provide housing for factory workers |
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| Cities with a population of more than 10 million |
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| A very large urban complex |
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| Huge stores with a wide variety of products designed for one-stop shopping |
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| City where trade became central to city design |
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| A large-scale functional entity that operates as an integrated economic whole |
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| Metropolitan Statistical Area |
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| A central county or counties with at least one urbanized area of at least 50,000 people, plus adjacent outlying counties with a large number of residents that commute in |
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| Micropolitan Statistical Area |
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| Has at least one urban cluster between 10,000 and 50,000 people plus outlying counties with considerable social and economic integration |
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| Counters that large cities develop by spreading from several nodes of growth, not just one |
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| Effect in which new basic sector employment is accompanied by a larger share of nonbasic workers, decreasing the ratio of basic sector workers to nonbasic |
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| With one or more clear core areas |
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| A model noting an urban area consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas |
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| A continuous development that contains a central city and many nearby cities, towns, and suburbs |
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| Larger than other cities in the area and representing a national culture |
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| Reserved for low-income households |
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| The nth largest city will be 1/n the size of the largest city |
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| Shows that a city develops in a series of sectors, not rings. Sectors determined by environmental factors or develop by chance |
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| Patterns of settlement on the earth's surface |
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| Steps to club sprawl, limit traffic congestion, and reverse inner-city decline |
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| Puts together information from census tracts to create an overall picture of how various types of people are distributed within a broader area, like a city |
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| Cities engaged in mining, manufacturing, or recreation |
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| The progressive development of landscape in the suburban area |
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| Organized territories under governments |
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| Areas that are nucleated, but use much land space for residences of people that work in or near cities |
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| Another word for city but smaller and complex |
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| Where major routes converge |
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| A geographical area consisting of a city or town |
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| Decision makers and organizers |
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| Nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor |
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| Focuses on how cities function, their internal systems and structures, and the external influences on them |
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| A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions |
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| Areas outside the city that are affected by it |
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| Government buys properties from the owners, relocate residents and businesses, clear the sites, and build new roads and utilities |
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| In the 1930s, the social scientist defined a city as a permanent settlement that has three characteristics that create living experiences for urban residents that are different from residents in rural areas: Large Size, High Density, and Social Heterogeneity |
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| Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce. |
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| An area that is either becoming more rural or more urban |
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| old part of city, more wealthy live here, bigger houses |
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| Encourage spatial separation by preventing mixing of land uses within the same district |
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