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19 Cards in this Set
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Central Business district
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the nucleus or downtown of a city where retial stores, offices and cultural activities are concentrated. mass transit converage and land values and building densities are high
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central place theory
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a deductive theory formulated by walter christaller to explain the size and distribution of settlements through reference to competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed rural populations.
*hexagons |
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concentric model
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a modle describing urban land uses as a series of circular belts or rings around a core central business district each ring housing a distinct type of land use.
*EW Burgess |
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Sector Model
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*Homer Hoyt
city activities grow in wedges. transportation and lower class go through city. middle class surrounds majority. small wedge of upper class |
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multiple nuclei
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*CD harris, Ullman
-more than one center in which activities revolve univirsity, airport, and park |
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counterurbanization
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net mirgration from urbvan to rural areas in more developed countries
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economic base
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a community's collection of basic industries.
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basic/non basic
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finneytown vs local business (bakery vs chipotle)
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edge city
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a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area (kenwood)
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gentrification
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converting a neighborhood to lower class to middle class
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ghetto
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used to denote section of city in which members of any minority live b/c of social legal or economic pressure
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globalization
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increasing interconnection in all parts of the world.
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hinterland
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the market area or reagion served by an urban center.
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medieval cities
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walls
small dense |
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conurbation
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a continuous extended urban area formed by the growing together of several formally seperate expanding cities
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primate city
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a country's leading city disproportionally large and functionally more complex than any other. half of the country's pop. is located here.
**montevideo, uruguay |
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rank-size rule
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an observed regularity in the city size distribution of some countries
in a rank size hierarchy the pop. of any given town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hiearchy. |
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redlining
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a process by which banks draw lines on a map and refust to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
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zoning
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designating by ordinance areas in an muncipality for a particular types of land use.
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