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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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Area of a city where retail and office activites are clustered
- Usually one of the oldest districts in the settlement
-Contains high % of infrastructure, buildings, retail |
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| The process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods |
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| An area where developers can plot out each house in the development and build the community from scratch |
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| Increase in the percentage and the number of people living in an urban settlement |
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| In the U.S. a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs |
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| Study of the physical form and structure of urban places |
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| Agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs to survive where excess is sold for consumption by others |
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| Differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production and prestige |
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| Innovation of cities that occured independently in five seperate hearths |
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| Towns/cities formed due to access to natural resources Ex. Sacramento, CA due to gold |
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Formed due to location as intersection of two or more lines of transportation
Ex. San Francisco, CA (Port) |
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| Unrestricted growth in many U.S. urban areas of housing, commercial development and roads over large expanses of land with little concern for urban planning |
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| A process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment |
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| Peak Land Value Intersection (PLVI) |
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| Part of CBD that is the downtown intersection surrounding the most expensive pieces of real estate |
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| Homes designed to look like European farm houses with front lawns and were originally built for the growing urban middle class of Chicago in Riverside, illinois |
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