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Urban area

A city with suburban areas surrounding it

Metropolitan area

A city that culturally and economically influences cities surrounding it.

Urban sprawl

When urban areas grow uncontrollably and cover lots of land and housing.

Edge city

A city that's on the outskirts of a larger city.

Boomburb

A suburb that grew rapidly with over 100k residents - sometimes exceeds other big cities.

Exurb

A fast-growing city on the edge of a metropolitan area.

Infill

Redevelopment of vacant land that were previously built.

Rank-size rule

Its an explanation of how a city's population may be distributed. - Largest city in the country as a baseline and ranks other cities in relation to it.

Primate city

A city that far exceeds its population size and influence, basically the country's next largest city.

Central place theory

The explanation of hierarchical patterns in the number, size, and location of cities and other settlements.

Threshold

The number of people needed to support a certain good or service.

Range

Distance that someone is willing to travel for a good or service.

Megacity

When a city has a population of over 10 million people.

Metacity

When a city has over 20 million people.

World cities

Global cities - they have mass control over their country or region and the globe as well.

Concentric-zone model

Its a model that shows how a city grows outward from its CBD in a series of concentric rings.

Sector model

As the cities develop, wedge-shaped divisions expand from the CBD.

Multiple-nuclei model

Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman showed that the largest cities don't grow in rings or sectors.

Nodes

The multiple functional points of a focal region.

Galactic city model

The peripheral model: that cities have a traditional downtown and loose coalitions of other urban centers.

Latin American city model

Griffin Ford Model - It follows the usual city layout with a CBD and rings, but it also includes religious and government buildings.

Disamenity zones

High poverty areas of urban zones.

Squatter settlements

Informal housing areas with overcrowding and mass poverty.

African city model

Average model but it also includes info on how the first CBD was made by colonizers.

Southeast Asia city model

Grown around ports that lack a clear CBD.

Zoning

The process by which a city is divided into areas where certain land uses are permitted.