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19 Cards in this Set
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Urbanism
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Urbanism is the study of cities - their geographic, economic, political, social and cultural environment, and the imprint of all these forces on the built environment. Urbanism is also the practice of creating human communities for living, work, and play, covering the more human aspects of urban planning. Urbanists define urban areas by their high population density.
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Urbanization
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A process involving two phases: 1) the movement of people from rural to urban places, where they engage in primarily nonrural occupations, and 2)the change in lifstyle that resultsfrom living in cities.
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Urban Place
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As a place increases in population, it eventually becomes large enouge to assume that its economy is no longer tied strictly to agriculture or other primary activities. At that point, a rural point becomes an urban palce.
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City
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Place larger than a town, that is legally incorporated as a municipality. However,a settlement of any size may call itself a city.
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World Cities
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One rung lower than global cities on the urban pyramid. Their economies are knowledge-based and tied to the provision of high-end services.
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Global Cities (name three)
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New York, London, and Toyoko.
They dominate the global economy and the world feels their influence in finance, communication, and other sectors. |
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Urbanized Area
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The built up area aea where buildings, roads, and essentially, urban land uses predominate, even beyond the political boundaries of cities and towns.
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Conurbation
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Refers to a large urban region composed of a network of large cities.
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Megalopolis
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Refers to urban coalescence at the regional scale. That coalescence is channeled along transportatin corridors connecting one city with another.
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Site
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The physical environment on which a city originated and evolved. (Surface landforms, underlying geology elevation, water features, etc.)
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Situation
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Refers to relative location of a city. It connotes a city's connetedness with other places and the surrounding region.
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Urban Morphology
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Attention is directed to the cities physical form. One city may be linear, for example , because of its location in a valley or along a river, while another may be compact.
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Urban Functions
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Different cities serve different functions. Some serve the needs for trade and commerce, while others may serve the needs of governmental administration.
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Urban Landscape
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Form and function work together to form the landscape, or the built environment of a city. Visible manisfestations of the thoughts, deeds, and actions of human beings.
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Capital City
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Head Cities - The headquarters of government functions.
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Preindustrial City
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City that was founded and grew before the arrival of the 19 and 20th century.
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Industrial City
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Cities which have an economy based on the production of manufactured goods.
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Postindustrial City
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New type of city emerging in the wealthy MCD's. Not tied too a manufactering base.
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Primate City
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Type of city defined by size and function.
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