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29 Cards in this Set
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Knowledge Society
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knowledge is society's main productive resource
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productive resource is...?
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Global City
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urban centers that are home to the headquarters of large, transnational corporations
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Urban Renewal/ Gentrification
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when areas or buildings become upgraded and return to the control of the high-income dwellers rather than remaining in the hands of the poor
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Suburbanization
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massive development and inhabiting of towns surrounding a city
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Suburbs
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Collective Consumption
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physical shape of cities is a product of both market forces and the power of government (aspect of industrial capitalism)
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Created Environment
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lessens the differences in modes of social life between urban and rural people; space is continually restructured
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agriculture becomes mechanized (industrial work)
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Urbanism
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(Wirth) related to the focus with how life in cities is distinctive from life elsewhere
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form of social existence; life of cities can be felt outside of cities too
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Urban Ecology
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cities grown in response to advantageous features of the environment
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Inner-City
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in center; a mixture of big business prosperity and decaying private houses
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Conurbation
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cluster of cities and towns forming a continuos network
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Megalopolis
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"city of cities"; peak of urban life today
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Urbanization
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movement of the population into towns and cities, away from the land
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industrialization increased...?
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Ecological Approach
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sitting of major urban settlements and different neighborhoods within them is similar to ecology
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Megacities
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role as connection points between enormous human populations and global economy
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(Manuel Castells) one of the main features of third millennium urbanization
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Demography
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study of population
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Crude Birthrates
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expressed as the number of live births per year per thousand of the population
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Fertility
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refers to how many live-born children the average woman has
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Fecundity
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the potential number of children women are biologically capable of bearing
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Crude Death Rates
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number of deaths per thousand of population per year
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"mortality rates"
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Mortality
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the number of deaths in a population
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Infant Mortality Rate
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number of babies per thousand births in any year who die before the age one
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Life Expectancy
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number of years the average person can expect to live
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Life Span
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maximum number of years that an individual could live
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Exponential
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starting with one item and doubling it, doubling the result, etc.
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Doubling Time
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the period of time it takes for the population to double
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Malthusianism
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Malthus predicted that humans would always live in circumstances of misery and starvation, unless they practiced "moral restraint"
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Demographic Transition
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changes in the ratio of births to deaths in the industrialized countries from the 19th century onward
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Environmental Ecology
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spread of industrial production may already have done severe damage to the environment
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Sustainable Development
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growth should be carried on in such a way as to recycle physical resources rather than deplete them and to keep levels of pollution to a minimum
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