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an ever-growing flashcard deck with definitions from the textbook "Human Geography for the AP Course"
city
a relatively large, densely populated settlement with a much larger population that rural towns and villages; cities 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 that the farmer and his family
socioeconomic stratification
the structuring of a society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (for instance, a government or ruling class) that exercise control over goods and people
first urban revolution
the agricultural and socioeconomic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest ciites
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 it’s 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
period that brought improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce that began in the late 1600s and continued through the 1930s
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 (according to the US census)
metropolitan statistical area
in the United States, a region with at least one urbanized area at its core
micropolitan statistical area
in the United States, a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people at its cores
suburbs
a populated area on the outskirts of a city
sprawl
the tendency of cities to grow in an unchecked manneroften leading to urban expansion into rural areas.
automobile cities
cities whose shape and size 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 businesses, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or central business district
boomburg
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
