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globalization |
The expansion of economic, political, or cultural processes to the point where it has a global scale impact. |
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absolute location |
The exact location of a place, generally using latitude and longitude. |
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accessability |
How easy it is to reach a place or location. |
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activity space |
A place within the area where a person's daily activities take place. |
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acropolis |
The "high point of a city." This was featured mostly in Greek civilizations for their churches and such. |
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human geography |
How we organize space and society, and how those societies make sense of each other and interact. |
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spatial distribution |
The way something is laid out across an area. |
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pandemic |
Worldwide outbreaks of a disease. |
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epidemic |
A regional outbreak of a disease. |
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spatial perspective |
Watching for differences in a group over space. |
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sense of place |
Something created when a person creates an important memory or ties emotional strings to an area. |
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perception of place |
An idea of a place you've never been to but understand through books, movies, and other forms of media. |
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connectivity |
The degree of linkage between locations in a network. |
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cultural landscape |
The visible imprint of human activity on a landscape. |
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cartography |
The art and science of making maps. |
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reference maps |
Maps that show the locations of places and geographic features. |
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thematic maps |
Maps that tell a story, showing movement or such. |
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remote sensing |
A form of data collection where a satellite or other aircraft collects and almost instantly delivers the information. |
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geographic information systems |
A tool used by geographers to compare spatial data by creating digital replicas of the environment. |
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cultural hearth |
Heartland, soure area, innovative center; place of origin of a major culture. |
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cultural diffusion |
The expansion and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin to a wider area. |
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time-distance decay |
The declining degree of acceptane of an idea or innovation with inreasing time and distance from its point of origin or source. |
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cultural barrier |
Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas, or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture. |
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environmental determinism |
The view that the natural environment has a controlling influence over various aspects of human life, including cultural development. |
A.K.A. Environmentalism |
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possibilism |
A response to environmentalism that holds that human decision making, not the environment is the crucial factor in cultural development, although the environment does limit the human choice. |
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central business district |
A concentration of business and commerce in the city's downtown. |
Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan |
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synekism |
conditions that derive from dwelling together in a particular home, place, or space. This can cause a set of onditions that make change happen. |
True in any large URBAN area. |
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urban |
the built up space of the central city and suburbs, including any surrounding environs connecting to the city. |
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city |
An agglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. |
The heart of an urban area. |
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agricultural village |
A community of people involved in agriculture. People lived at near substinance levels, producing just enough to get by. |
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first urban revolution |
The innovation of the city, which occurred independently in six different hearths. |
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urban hearths |
-Mesopotamia |
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agricultural hearths |
The fertile crescent: |
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secondary hearth |
An early adopter of a cultural practice or trait that becomes a central locale from which the practice or trait further diffuses. |
-Greece |
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agora |
A place where everything from debates to military planning, to socializing takes place, literally translating to market. |
-Greece |
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site |
The internal physical attributes of a place including its absolute location, its spatial character, and physical setting. |
Ancient Rome had a good site. |
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situation |
Based on a city's role in the larger surrounding context, specificaly relative location in a region and the world around it. This can change over time. |
Situation changed as the Roman Empire dissolved. |
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urban morphology |
The layout of the city, and its physical form and structure. |
Greeks always used grids when they colonized. |
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functional zonation |
The purpose or use of buildings added to the map of the morphology of a city. |
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Forum |
The focal point of Roman public life. |
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trade areas |
An adjacent region within which its influence is dominant. |
Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada all end up in SLC's trade area. |
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rank-size rule |
In a model of urban hierarchy, the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. |
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primate city |
A country's leading city, always disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling. |
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central place theory |
A theory that explains how and where central places in the urban heirarchy shoud be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another. |
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Sun Belt phenomenon |
The movement of millions of Americans from northern states to northeastern states, and from northeastern to southern and southwestern states. |
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functional zonation |
The division of the city into certain regions for certain purposes. |
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zone |
An area of the city, generally preceded by a descriptor of what the area is used for. |
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central city |
The urban area that is not suburban. |
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suburban |
An outlying, functionally uniform part of an urban area that is generally adjacent to the central city. |
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suburbanization |
The process by which lands that were previously outside of the urban environment become urbanized. |
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absolute distance |
A distance that can be measured with a standard unit of length |
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aggregation |
To come together into a mass, sum, or whole |
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anthroprogenic |
Human-induced changes on the natural environment |
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breaking point |
The outer edge of a city's sphere of influence, used in the law of retail gravitation to describe the area of a city's hinterlands that depend on that city for its retail supplies |
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cartogram |
A type of thematic map that transforms space such that the political unit with the greatest value for some type of data is represented by the largest relative area |
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cognitive map |
An image of a portion of Earth's surface that an individual creates in his or her mind. Cognitive maps can include knowledge of actual locations and relationships among locations as well as personal perceptions and references of particular places. |
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complementarity |
the actual or potential relationship between two places, usually referring to economic interacions |
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contagious diffusion |
The spread of a disease, an innovation, or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or another place. |
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coordinate system |
A standard grid, composed of lines of latitude and longitude, used to determine the absolute location of any object, place, or feature on Earth's surface. |
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cultural ecology OR nature-society geography |
The study of the interactions between societies and the natural environments in which they live |
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Earth system science |
A systematic approach to physical geography that looks at the interaction between Earth's physical systems and processes on a global scale. |
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environmental geography |
The intersection between human and physical geography, which explores the spatial impacts humans have on the physical environment and vice versa. |
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