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none of these definitions are mine and come straight from the textbook
City
A relatively large, densely populated settlement with a much larger population than rural towns and villages; (TERM) serve as important commercial, governmental, and cultural hubs for their surrounding regions
Urban
Relating to a city
Agricultural surplus
Crop yields that are sufficient to feed more people than the farmer and his or her family
Socioeconomic stratification
The structuring of society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (for instance, a government or ruling class) that exercises control over goods and people
First urban revolution
The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities
Urban hearth areas
Regions in which the world’s first cities evolved
Site
An absolute location of a place on Earth
Situation
The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places
Capitalism
An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than owned and run by the state
Communism
An economic and political system in which all property is publicly owned and managed
Streetcar suburbs
A settlement outside of a city with streetcar lines; the streetcars take residents into and out of the city easily
Second urban revolution
The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth
Redevelopment
A set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times
Metropolis
A very large and densely populated city, particularly the capital or major city of a country or region
Urban area
Any self-governing place in the United States that contains at least 2500 people
Urbanized areas
In the United States, an urban area with 50,000 people or more
Urban clusters
In the United States, an urban area with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants
Metropolitan statistical areas
In the United States, a region with at least one urbanized area as its core
Micropolitan statistical areas
In the United States, a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people as its cores
Suburbs
A populated area on the outskirts of a city
Urbanization rate
The percentage of a nation’s population living in towns and cities
Suburbanization
The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city
Sprawl
The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner
Automobile cities
Cities whose size and shape are dictated by and almost require individual automobile ownership
Decentralize
In an urban context, to move business operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs
Edge city
A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or central business district
Boomburbs
A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government
Infill development
The building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on vacant or underused parcels in already developed areas
Exburb
A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families
World cities
A world center of trade, finance, information, and migration
Gated communities
Privately governed and highly secure residential area within the bounds of a city; often has a fence or a gate surrounding it
Urban system
A set of interdependent cities or urban places connected by networks
Urban hierarchy
A ranking of cities, with the largest and most powerful cities at the top of the hierarchy
Rank-size rule
The population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy
Primate city
A city that is much larger than any other city in the country and that dominates the country’s economic, political, and cultural life
Central place theory
A model, developed by Walter Christaller, that attempts to understand why cities are located where they are
Central places
A settlement that makes certain types of products and services available to consumers
Threshold
In central place theory, the number of people required to support businesses
Range
In central place theory, the distance people will travel to acquire a good
Gravity model
The idea that the closer two places are, the more they will influence each other
