Unit six vocab APHG

A large/ dense populated settlement much larger than a rural area/ town; serves as important commercial, governmental, and cultural hubs.

The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities

An absolute location of a place on earth

The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position w/ reference to other places

The industrial innovation in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth

A very large and densely populating city, particularity the capital or a major city of a country or region

The process by which people live and are employed in a city. Population shifts from rural to urban settings.

The movement of people from urban core area to the surrounding outskirts of a city

A concentration of businesses, shopping, and entertainment that develops in the suburbs outside a cities CBD/ downtown

A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metro politan area; a large suburb with its own government

A semi-rural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well to do families (rich/ better off)

A cuty that is a control center of the global economy, in which major decisions are made about the worlds commercial networks and financial markets.

Privately governed and highly secure residential area within the bounds of a city; often has fence/gate around it

The population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy

A city that is much larger than any other city in the country and that dominates the countries economical,political and cultural life

A model developed by Walter Christaller, that attempts to understand why cities are located where they are

In central place theory, the number of people required to support businesses.

The idea that the closer two places are the more they will influence each other

In central place theory the distance people will travel to acquire a good.

A model of a city’s internal organization developed by E.W Burgess originated in 5 rings that model the arrangement of different residential zones radiation outward from the CBD

A model of a city’s internal organization developed by Homer Hoyt that focuses on transportation and communication as the driver of the city’s layout

A model of a city internal organization developed by Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman, showing residential districts that organized around several nodes (nuclei) rather than once CBD

A model of a city internal organization in which the CBD remains central, but multiple shopping area, office parks, industrial districts are scattered through the surrounding suburbs and linked by metropolitan expressway systems

A model of a internal structure of the Latin American city developed by Ernst Griffin and Larry Ford

The displacement of lower income residents by higher-income residents as an area or neighborhood improves

Policies that combat regional sprawl by addressing issues of population density and transportation

An approach to city planning that focuses on fostering European style cities of dense settlements, attractive architecture, and housing of different types and prices withing walking distance to shopping, restaurants, hobs, and public transportation.

A zone of grassy, forested or agricultural land separating urban areas

A practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners in a neighborhood to sell their homes by convincing them that the neighborhood is declining due to black families moving in

The practice of identifying high-risk neighborhoods on a city map and refusing to led money to people who want to buy property in those neighborhoods.

Large scale development of the built enviroment in downfall and older inner city neighborhoods.