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ch 9 vocabulary

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city   show
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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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show region in South Asia where the first urban revolution occurred around 2200 BCE  
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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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functional zonation   show
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site   show
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situation   show
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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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hinterland   show
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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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suburbanization   show
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concentric zone model (Burgess)   show
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sector model (Hoyt)   show
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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 large urban areas on the outskirts of major cities, typically found on major roads. edge cities are characterized by extensive space for offices and retail, and few residential areas  
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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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latín american city model (Griffin-Ford/New Ford)   show
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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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african city model (DeBlij)   show
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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 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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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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show large homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs  
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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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urban geopolitics   show
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show a large city with more than 10 million people  
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hutment factories   show
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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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