Unit 6 (Cities and Urban Land Use)

Consumer Services: Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services

Business Services: Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

Public Services: Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

Basic Industries: Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement

Non-basic industries: Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.

Range: The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

Threshold: The minimum number of people needed to support the service

World Cities: A group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally dominant system of global control of finance and commerce

Megacity: City with more than 10 million people

Metacity: A city with a population over 20 million

Megalopolis: a region in which several large cities and surrounding areas grow together

urban sprawl: The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.

Central Business District: The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.

intensive land use: A high demand for land and space in the CBD so it begins to build both underground and higher up

empty nest esters: Middle-aged or older parents who do not have children living with them

Yuppies: young urban professionals 

Gentrification: A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.

Filtering: a process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

Ghettoization: A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources.

food desert: An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain

Urban Decay: situation in which a city area has fallen into a state of disrepair through its people leaving the area or not having enough resources to look after them\

Gravity Model: is a spatial interaction model that predicts the likelihood of interaction between two places based on their population sizes and the distance between them. It's based on Newton's Law of Gravitation, suggesting that larger populations and closer proximity lead to more interaction.

Primate City: No direct relationship and has reliance on biggest city

Rank-Size Rule: Biggest City / next city rank (2nd, 3rd, 4th) = population