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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 | Region in southwest Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 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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| 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 | The position of a city or place relative to its surrounding environment or context.
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| show | The upper, fortified part of an ancient Greek city. Commonly a religious site.
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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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| show | The lead city in a country in terms of size and influence.
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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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| 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 (CBD) using 5 concentric zones with the newest built on the outskirts. Created by Ernest Burgess in 1925 based on Chicago, United States.
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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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| 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 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 Asia.
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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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| 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 | 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 | 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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