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show Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy: center of the flow of information and capital  
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show City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate  
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Megacities   show
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Gateway city   show
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Primate city   show
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show Export primarily to consumers outside the settlement  
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show Enterprises whose customers live in the same community  
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show A trading center, or simply a warehouse, where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit  
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Infrastructure   show
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CBD (Central business district)   show
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show Small districts used by the U.S Census Bureau to survey the population  
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Peak land value intersection   show
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Centrality   show
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Decentralization   show
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show The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity  
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Squatter settlements   show
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show the central area of a major city; in the US it often applied to the poorer parts of the city center where people are less educated and wealthy where there is more crime  
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show An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background  
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Ghetto   show
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show A practice by bans and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be a high risk for housing loans  
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show The cleaning and redevelopment of urban slum  
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Blockbusting   show
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show A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominately low-income renter-occupied area to a predominately middle-class owner-occupied area  
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