Urban Geography
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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 B.C.E.
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| Indus River Valley | show 🗑
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| show | Region in China where the first urban revolution occurred around 1500 B.C.E.
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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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| Central Business District | 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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| show | transformation of farmland and small towns outside of an urban area into suburbs
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| show | Urban model that explains the distribution of social groups around a central business district using 5 concentric ones with the newest built on the outskirts. Created by Ernest Burgess in 1925 based on Chicago, United States
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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 | show 🗑
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| show | large urban areas on the outskirts of major cities, typically found on major roads. Edge cities are characterized by extensive spaces for officers and reital, and few residential areas
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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 America 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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| show | model of Southeast Asian cities showing a city with an old colonial port zone surrounded by a large commercial district and no formal CBD. Designed to help see the layers of history built in cities in Southeast China
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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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| 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 US cities in response to blockbusting
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| show | renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle- to upper- class neighborhood, which results in driving up property values and rents and the dispossession of lower income residents
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| Teardowns | show 🗑
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| McMansions | show 🗑
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| Urban sprawl | show 🗑
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| New Urbanism | show 🗑
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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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| show | portion of the economy that is not taxed or regulated by government. Goods and services are exchanged based on barter or cash systems, and earnings are not reported to government
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