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Grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources |
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| Squatter settlements found in the periphery of Latin American cities. |
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| the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District increases. |
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| A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. |
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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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| The downtown heart of a central city, the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings. |
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| Small country subdivisions, usually containing between 2,500 and 8,000 persons, delineated by the US Census Bureau as areas of relatively uniform population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions. |
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| urban landscape; similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city's skyline, which is the CBD) |
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| City established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures. |
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| Marketing a product; The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity |
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| the outer most zone of the Concentric Zone Model that represents people who choose to live in residential suburbia and take a daily commute in the CBD to work. |
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| Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. |
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| the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts |
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Cities of the ancient world (-3500 to -1200) (We learned about how agriculture and language began in this era.......... |
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a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties |
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a slum community in a Brazilian city |
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A household dominated by a woman (We learned about how MCDs have different family structure.) |
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because of their geographic location, they act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas (e.g., NYC, San Francisco, ...). |
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| the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people) |
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a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |
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growth to a global or worldwide scale |
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a city with a population of more then 1 million |
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The functional dominance of cities within an urban system |
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| Is the process by which the activities of an organization |
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| created the central place theory which displayed the ideas that central places would provide services and goods to the surrounding areas |
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conglomeration of people and buildingd clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. |
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the transfermation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity |
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| a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings |
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cities of the ancient world |
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| Economic Base (basic/nonbasic) |
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| a commutity's collection of basic industries |
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| city currantly without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate |
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| how the workforce is divided up between the three main employment sectors - primary, secondary, and tertiary |
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a neighborhood in which the people who live in there and share physical, mental, and cultural traits |
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a landscape of cultural festivities |
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| A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. |
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