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| ratio between workers employed in the basic sector and those employed in the nonbasic sector |
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| result of money flowing into the city |
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| produced goods and services for the residents of the city itself, and their work collectively. |
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| created the concentric zoen model in 1923 (sociologist) |
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| a megalopolis. although it includes many large, distinct cities, the area is economically integrated, and the hinterlands around each city overlap to create a single urban expanse that stretches from Boston to Washington D.C. and beyond |
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| urban areas divided into 5000 residents each by the US census. |
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| central buisness district (CBD) |
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| The commercial land (sometimes cultural) heart of a city. It is dominated by shops and offices many of which are found in tall skyscrapers. |
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| a heavily populated city at the center of a large metropolitan area. |
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| a theory that explains the distributions of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers for market areas for services; larger settlements are larger and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a large number of people who are willing to travel farther. theory by 1930 German geographer Walter Christaller |
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| made book in 1933 entitiled "The Central Places In Southern Germany", and provided a model for settlement patterns that rested in several assumptions. |
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| a city with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. |
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| where each individual urban center and its merchants have a sales monopoly. |
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a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of ring.(theory proposed by 1923 sociologist E. W. Burgess) |
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| a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
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| The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords. |
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| a large node or office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area |
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| when workers produce goods or services for areas outside the city. |
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| the increasing proportion of the poor who are women. |
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| period between about 4000 and 2000 BCE- for the development of states and urbanization |
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| when a neighborhood begins to attract middle-class residents. |
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| During the middle ages, a neighborhood set up in a city by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
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| to isolate in or as if in a ghetto |
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| rings of open space where houses may not be built |
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| a small settlement, generally one smaller than a village |
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| developed multiple nuclei model explaining that large cities developed by spreading from several places of growth, not just one. |
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| a city develops in a series of sectors, not rings |
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| the stick of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area |
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| zone that contains much more modest housing and transitions to the outer-ring poverty |
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| cities adapted to mushrooming of factories, supply facilities, transport systems, and labor force construction |
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| Cities, mostly characteristic of the developing world, with high population growth and migration. All megacities have more than 10 million people |
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| a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) |
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| huge stores with a wide variety of products designed for one stop shopping |
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| fronted by royal, religious, public, and private buildings evincing wealth and prosperity, power and influence (downtown) |
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| a major population center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and forms that surround it. |
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| metropolitan statistical area |
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| a central country or countries with at least one urbanized area of at least 50000 people, plus adjacent outlying countries with a large number of residents that commute it. |
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| micropolitan statistical area |
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| An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city. |
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| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. |
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| An effect in economics in which an increase in spending produces an increase in national income and consumption greater than the initial amount spent. |
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| having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus |
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| A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. |
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| a continuous development that contains a central city and many nearby cities, towns, and suburbs |
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| A city which is greater than two times the next largest city in a nation (or contains over one-third of a nation's population). The primate city is usually very expressive of the national culture and often the capital city. |
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| a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |
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| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. |
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| The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic |
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a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.proposed by 1939 land economist Homer Hoyt |
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| patterns of settlement on earth's surface: rank-size rule and Christaller's central place theory |
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legislation and regulations to limit the suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |
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| the distribution of social characteristics in a census tract may be plotted on a map by a computer that stores vast amounts of data about the inhabitants |
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| cities engaged in mining, manufacturing, or recreation, or education |
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| process of expansive suburban development over large areas |
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| independent political units with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states |
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| Residential areas surrounding a city-shops and businesses moved to suburbia as well as people. |
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| the people living in a municipality smaller than a city |
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| where major routes converge-roads, railroads, sea traffic, and air transportation break of bulk point |
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| a geographical area constituting a city or town |
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| group of socially, politically, or economically dominant figures in a society. |
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| a nation or group of territories ruled by a single, powerful leader or emperor |
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| The study of how people use space in cities |
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| A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions. |
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| Areas outside the city that are affected by it. |
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| program in which cities identify blighted inter-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers. |
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| American sociologist whose theory was based on an essay 'Urbanism as a Way of Life.' |
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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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| A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |
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