Enst/geog - Ch 10: Urbanization

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The Four Fundamental roles of towns and cities in human economic and social organization are:

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- The mobilizing Function:

- The decision-making capacity:

- The generative functions:

- The transformative capacity:

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Urban System

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Any interdependent set of urban settlements within a given region.

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Urban Form

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Refers to the physical structure and organization of cities in their land use, layout, and built

environment.

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Urban Ecology

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The social and demographic composition of city districts and neighbourhoods.

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Urbanism

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Describes the way of life fostered by urban settings, in which the number, physical density, and variety of people often result in distinctive attitudes, values, and patterns of behaviour.

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Gateway Cities

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Serve as a link between one country or region and others because of their physical situation.

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Shock City

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Seen at the time as the embodiment of surprising and disturbing changes in economic, social, and cultural life.

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Colonial Cities

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Cities that were deliberately established or developed by colonial or imperial powers as administrative or commercial centres.

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Central Place

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A settlement where certain types of products or services are available to consumers.

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Central Place Theory

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Seeks to explain the tendency for central places to be organized in hierarchical systems, analyzing the relative size and geographic spacing of towns and cities as a function of consumer behaviour.

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Rank-Size Rule

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Describes a certain statistical regularity in the city-size distributions of countries and regions.

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Primacy

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Occurs when the population of the largest city in an urban system is disproportionately large in relation to the second and third largest cities in that system.

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Over-Urbanization

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Occurs when cities grow faster than they can sustain jobs and housing.

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Squatter Settlements

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Residential developments on land that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants. Often, but not always, slums.

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Megacities

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Very large cities characterized by both primacy and a high degree of centrality within their

national economy.

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Informal Sector

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Involves a wide variety of economic activities whose common feature is that they take place beyond official record and are not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration.

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Counter urbanization

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Occurs when cities experience a net loss of population to smaller towns and rural areas.

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Re-urbanization

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Involves the growth of population in

metropolitan central cores following a period of relative or absolute decline in population.

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Centrality

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Refers to the functional dominance of cities

within an urban system.