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AP 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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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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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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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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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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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 (CBD)   show
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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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Suburb   show
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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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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 recreational area, and widely dispersed industrial parks, shopping centers, high-tech industrial spaces, edge-city downtowns, and industrial suburbs are the new centers of economic activity.  
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Latin American City Model (Griffin-Ford/New Ford)   show
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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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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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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 from this.  
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White flight   show
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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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Urban sprawl   show
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show Development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs  
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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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show Manufacturing conducted in slums, typically relying on intensive hand labor and low-cost machines.  
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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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