AMSCO Unit 6 KC#1 (6.1-6.4) Terms 1-58

A variety of community types with a range of population densities.

Areas (farms and villages) with low concentration of people.

Areas (cities) with high concentrations of people.

Are primarily residential areas near cities.

A place with a permanent human population.

Presence of an agricultural surplus; the rise of social stratification and a leadership class or urban elite; the beginning of job specialization are all factors of

The process of developing towns and cities.

An indicator of the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns as compared to those that live in rural areas.

Describes the characteristics at the immediate location.

Refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.

Consisted of an urban center (the city) and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages.

Early city-states emerged in several locations around the globe in this form. It's an area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soild allowed for an agricultural surplus.

Usually defined as a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, and includes the surrounding suburbs.

A higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries.

A collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across which population density is high and continuous.

Another way to define a city. Consists of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it is located.

Are cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants (but less than 50,000), the county in which they are located, and surrounding counties with a high degree of integration.

Focal point on a matrix of connections.

Physical characteristics, such as the buildings, streets, public places, and home that can also describe an urban area.

Heterogeneity, immigration, and diversity are characteristics of

The form of transportation improvements, that has led to urban growth.

Used to describe urban growth based on transportation technology.

Had important effects on the urban structure leading to a decline in pedestrian cities.

Are the earliest urban centers, cities shaped by the distances people could walk

Communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged, often creating a pinwheel shaped city.

Had dramatic impacts on the growth and development of cities. Cities connected to trade routes received information first.

Population growth pressure, cultural tension, environmental strain, and lack of economic opportunities created puch factors in agricultural communities.

Cities are now viewed as engines of growth for a country's economy. Consequently, economic and political leaders, at the national and local scale, develop policies to guide and encourage the growth of cities.China implemented the new urbanization plan. Cities in the Midwest of the United States, such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, were often focused on attracting manufacturing jobs; while cities in Florida, such as Orlando and Tampa , promoted development based retirement and tourism.

The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.

The causes that contributed to this were after World War 2.

A specific process that encourages sprawl.

Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities.

The counter-flow of urban residents leaving cities.

The propserous residential districts beyond the suburbs.

The process of people returning to live in a city they left.

Have a population of more than 10 million people.

Sometimes called hypercities, are defined in two ways.

A term for the early 1900's that describe a chain of connected cities.

The pattern has changed unlike in the past century where megacities were found at centers of large empires or the most powerful countries, they have now become more common in LDCs.

An uninterrupted urban area made of towns, suburbs, and cities.

Cities that exert influence far beyond the national boundaries. Cities like New York, London, Tokyo, and Paris.

London, New York City, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, Amsterdam, Berlin, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai.

Ranking, based on influence or population size.

Command centers on a regional and occassionally nation level.

An interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional, national, and global scale.

Describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop.

Usually expensive, need a larger number of people to support, and are only occassionally utilized.

Usually less expensive, require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis.

Is more developed than other cities in the system, and consequency, disproportionately more powerful.

States that larger and closer places will have more interactions than places that are smaller and farther from each other.

Is used to explain the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region.

A location where people go to recieve goods and services.

The outlying towns and small communities that rely on the central city for goods and services.

The size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable.

The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services.

Assumes a flat, featureless plain. It does not take into account the effects of natural landscapes of rivers, mountains, or other barriers on the distribution of cities.

As millenials have started families, they have relocated out of central cities into enclaves inspired by new urbanist designs. In the future, self-driving cars and other new technology could reduce the friction of distance. Voluntary segregation will likely continue, and the number of ethnic neighborhoods will flourish.

The economic, social, and educational opportunities these cities offer will continue to pull in migration from rural areas. If growth exceeds carrying capacity, the standard of living will deteriorate. The increasigly dense concentration of people will increase the impacts of deadly epidemics, natural disasters, etc.