Unit 6 APHG Vocab

City

City

A relatively large, densely populated settlement with a much larger population that rural towns and villages.

First Urban Revolution

The agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest settlement.

Site

An absolute location of a place on earth

Situation

The relative location of place in reference to it’s surrounding features, or it’s original position with reference to other places.

Second Urban Revolution

The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to the increased urban growth.

Metropolis

A very large densely populated city, particularly that capital or major city of a country or region.

Urbanization

The process of making an area more urban.

Suburbanization

The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city.

Edge City

A concentration of businesses, shopping, and entertainment that developed n the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional CBD.

Boomburb

A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area.

Exurb

A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often enhabited by well-to-do families.

World City

A city that is a control center of the global economy, in which major decisions are made about the worlds commercial networks and financial markets.

Gated Community

Privately governed and highly secured residential area within the bounds of a city.

Rank-Size Rule

The population of a settlement in inversely proportional it’s 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.

Range

In central place theory, the distance people will travel to acquier a good

Gravity Model

The idea that the closer two places are, the more they will influence each other.

Threshold

In central place theory, the number of people required to support businesses

Concentric Zone Model

A model of a city’s internal organization, developed by E.W Burgess organized in five concentric rings, that model the arrangement of different residential zones going outward from the CBD.

Multiple Nuclei Model

A model of a city’s internal organization, developed by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman, showing residential districts organized around several nodes(nuclei) rahter than one CBD.

Galactic City Model

A model of a city’s internal organization, in which the CBD remains central, but multiple shopping areas, office parks, and industrial districts are scattered throughout the surrounding suburbs.

Griffin-Ford Model

A model of internal structure of the Latin American city developed by Ernst Griffin and Larry Ford.

Gentrification

The displacement of lower-income residents by higher-income residence as an area or neighborhood improves.

Smart Growth

Policies that combat regional sprawl by addressing issues of population density and transportation.

New Urbanism

An approach to city planning that focuses on fostering European-style cities of dense settlements, attractive architecture, and housing of different types and prices within walking distance of shopping, transportation,and jobs.

Greenbelt

A zone of grassy, forested, or agricultural land separating urban areas.

Blockbusting

A practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners to sell their homes by convincing them that the neighborhood is declining due to black families moving in.

Redlining

The practice of identifying high-risk neighborhoods on a city map and refusing to lend money to people who want to buy property in those neighborhoods.

Urban Renewal

Large-scale redevelopment of the built environment in downtown and other inner-city neighborhoods.

Hoyt/Sector Model

A model of a city’s internal organization developed by Homer Hoyt, that focuses transportation and communication as the drivers of the City’s layout.