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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 in money from outside the area.Nonbasic sector includes all industry that supports and services the local community. |
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| served as the 24th President of the American Sociological Society |
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| the heavily populated area extending from Boston to Washington and including New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. |
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| An area deliniated by the us beureau of the census for which statisitcs are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods |
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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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| A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. |
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| provided a model for settlement patterns that rested on several assumptions |
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| people living in a large densely populated municipality |
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| a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside |
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| the merging of two regions for benefit |
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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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| cooperative agencies consisting of representatives from local governments in the region |
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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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| clusters of large buildings away from the central business district |
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| the process of exporting goods from a region |
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| the trend of women making up an increasing proportion of the poor |
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| time where the major urban hearths came into existance |
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| the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people) |
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| GHETTOS: portion of a city in which members of a minority group live; especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. GHETTOIZATION: The process of becoming a ghetto, an isolated and underprivileged urban area. |
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| (in European cities) undeveloped area neighboring an urban area, often protected from development by planning law |
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| a community of people 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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| hierarchy of central places |
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| Central places are more economicly active and thrive |
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