Chapter 9 Vocabulary
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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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| Mesopotamia | show 🗑
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| show | Region along the Nile River in North Africa where the first urban revolution occurred 3200 BCE.
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| show | Region in South Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE.
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| show | Region in China where the first urban revolution occurred around 1500 BCE.
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| show | Region in central America where the first urban revolution occurred around 200 BCE.
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| Urban morphology | show 🗑
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| Functional zonation | show 🗑
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| show | The upper, fortified part of an ancient Greek city. Commonly a religious site.
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| Primate city | show 🗑
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| Central Place theory | show 🗑
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| Central City | show 🗑
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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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| show | A structural model of the American city centered on a central business district with distinct areas of manufacturing and residences extending in wedge-shaped zones from the CBD (like pieces of pie).
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| show | Layout of American cities, including a central business district (CBD) and suburban business districts that each serve as nuclei around which businesses and residences cluster.
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| Edge cities | show 🗑
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| Galactic City Model | show 🗑
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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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| show | Residential zone where lowest income residents in the city live, especially in the Latin American city model. Often built on unstable or undesirable land.
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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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| show | Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed.
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| show | Discriminatory real estate practice (now illegal) that prevents minorities from getting loans to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.
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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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| show | Homes bought in suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with much larger homes, often referred to as McMansions.
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| show | Large homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs.
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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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| Gated communities | show 🗑
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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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