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| A German word meaning the land "behind" the city. Includes smaller villages and hamlets. |
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| The study of how cities function, their internal systems and structures, and the external influences on them |
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| A term that relates the structure of towns within an area. |
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| Place that offers no services. |
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| A term used to describe multiple cities that have grown together to create a single urban expanse. |
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| The external locational attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other non local places |
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| The actual physical qualities of the place a city occupies. |
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| Cities that are specially organized to perform their function as places of commerce, production, education, and much more. |
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| "Downtown"; the core of the city. |
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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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| The part of an urban area that lies within the outer ring of residential suburbs. |
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| An outlying, functionally uniform part of an urban area, often(bu not always) adjacent to the central city. |
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| Components of giant conurbations that function separately in certain ways but are linked together in a greater metropolitan sphere. |
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| A discrimnatory real estate practice in North America in which members in minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. Today, it's officially illegal. |
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| Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods. In the resulting out migration, real estate agents profit through the turnover of properties. |
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| The practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race. |
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| Restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests. Although predominantly high-income based, in North America they are increasingly a middle class phenomenon. |
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| In a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. |
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| The companies that provide jobs in a given community or geographic location. |
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| Work that produces goods for export and generates an inflow of money. |
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| Workers who maintain city streets, clerks who work in offices, and teachers who teach in city schools are responsible for the functioning of the city itself.(also called the service sector) |
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| Data on the number of people employed in basic and nonbasic jobs |
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| The production of particular goods or services as a dominant activity in a particular location |
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| Functional specialization |
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| Expansion of economic activity caused by the growth or introduction of another economic activity. |
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| Th maximum distance people can be from a central place and still be attracted to it for business purposes. |
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| A characteristic of urban situations that is crucial to the development of urban places and their service areas. |
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| Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy would be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another. |
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| A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic function. |
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| A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest (the geographic southern United States). |
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