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| Urbanization: increase in the percentage and the number of people living in an urban settlement. |
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| defined as a permanent settlement with 3 characteristics: large size, high population density, and social heterogeneity. |
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| Social scientist Louis Wirth (argued that an urban dweller had a different way of life than a rural dweller) |
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| What is the trend of urbanization? |
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1850: 6%
1900:14%
1950:30%
2000:47% |
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| MSA: Metropolitan Statistical Area. Created by the US Census Bureau as a method of measurement for the functional area of a city. |
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| Consists of an urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000, and the county in which the city is located. |
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| Some include extensive land area that is not urban (Ex: Great Smokey Mountains is partially located in Knoxville, Tennessee.) |
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| defined as an area within a city in a less developed state in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and make homemade structures. |
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| defined as unplanned slum developments on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made of mostly scrap wood, iron and even pieces of cardboard. |
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| defined as an unrestricted growth in may US urban areas of housing, commercial development and roads over large expanses of land with little concern for urban planning. |
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| defined as a process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. |
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| defined as a process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property or poverty within the boundaries. |
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| defined as a program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear site, build new roads and utilities and turn the land over to private developers. |
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| defined as a process where many inner city areas become more dilapidated areas of poverty as affluent groups move out to the suburbs and immigrants and minority groups vie for scarce opportunities. |
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| defined as areas of large urban regions that lose significant portions of their population as a result of change in industry or migration to suburbs; area loses its tax base and becomes a center of poverty. |
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| defined as the replacing of decayed inner city areas usually with new construction of shopping, sporting arenas, cultural structures, etc... usually to lure young professionals back to the cities along with tourists. |
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