Chapter 9
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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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| First Urban Revolution | show 🗑
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| Mesopotamia | show 🗑
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| Nile River Valley | show 🗑
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| Indus River Valley | show 🗑
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| Huang He and Wei Valleys | show 🗑
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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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| show | Division of a city into different regions (e.g., residential or industrial) by use or purpose (e.g., housing or manufacturing).
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| show | Physical attributes of the location of a human settlement - for example, at the head of navigation of a river or at a certain elevation.
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| show | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.
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| Rank-size rule | show 🗑
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| show | The lead city in a country in terms of size and influence.
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| show | Walter Christaller’s theory that the size and locations of cities, towns, and villages are logically and regularly distributed.
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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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| Suburb | show 🗑
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| show | Transformation of farmland and small towns outside of an urban area into suburbs.
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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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| 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, high-tech industrial spaces, 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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| Redlining | show 🗑
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| Blockbusting | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| McMansions | show 🗑
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| Urban sprawl | show 🗑
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| New Urbanism | show 🗑
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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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| Urban Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| show | A large city with more than 10 million people.
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| show | Manufacturing conducted in slums, typically relying on intensive hand labor and low-cost machines.
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| Informal economy | show 🗑
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