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Human Geography

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show A large settlement of people with an extensive built environment that functions as a center of politics, culture, and economics.  
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show The transformation of societies from agriculture villages to permanently settled cities, which occurred independently in five separate hearths  
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show Region in southwest Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE.  
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Nile River Valley   show
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show Region in South Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE.  
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Huang He and Wei Valleys   show
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Mesoamerica   show
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show The layout of a city, including the sizes and shapes of buildings and the pathways of infrastructure.  
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Functional zonation   show
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Site   show
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show The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.  
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Acropolis   show
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show Observed statistical relationship that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. For example, second largest city is half the population of largest city.  
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Primate city   show
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Central Place theory   show
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show An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.  
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show The zone of a city where businesses cluster and around which a city and its infrastructure are typically built.  
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show Urban area that is not suburban. Generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by suburbs.  
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show A built-up residential and shopping district connected to a central city by major transportation routes.  
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Suburbanization   show
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Concentric Zone Model (Burgess)   show
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Sector Model (Hoyt)   show
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Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris and Ullman)   show
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Edge cities   show
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show Modern city in which the old downtown plays the role of a festival or recreational area, and widely dispersed industrial parks, shopping centers, high-tech industries, edge-city downtowns, and industrial suburbs are the new centers of economic activity.  
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show Model of Latin American cities showing central plazas and wide streets commonly designed by Spanish colonizers. Designed to help see the layers of history built in cities in Latin America.  
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Disamenity sector   show
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show Model of African cities showing how colonial cities were often built around African cities. The central city has three CBDs: traditional, informal, and colonial. Designed to help see the layers of history in cities in Africa.  
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Southeast Asia City Model (McGhee)   show
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Zoning laws   show
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show Discriminatory real estate practice that prevents minorities from getting loans to purchase property like homes in white neighborhoods. The practice derived its name from the red lines drawn on cadastral maps used by real estate agents and developers.  
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show Rapidly changing racial or class composition of a neighborhood that occurs when real estate agents persuade residents to sell homes because of fear that another race or class of people is moving into the neighborhood. Real estate agents profit in the sale  
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show Movement of whites from the city and adjacent neighborhoods to outlying suburbs in response to a growth in the number of residents who are a different race. Common in U.S. cities in response to blockbusting.  
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Gentrification   show
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Teardowns   show
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McMansions   show
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show the expansion of low density urban areas around a city. New urbanism a modern approach to planning and developing cities and communities that values walkability, attracting diverse incomes, and access to public spaces.  
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show A modern approach to planning and developing cities and communities that values walkability, attracting diverse incomes, and access to public spaces  
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show residential neighborhoods where access is controlled in order to define exclusive space and deter movement of people and traffic through the neighborhood.  
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show How cities shape and are shaped by geopolitical processes at national, regional and global scales.  
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show A large city with more than 10 million people.  
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Hutment factories   show
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Informal economy   show
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