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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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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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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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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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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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Situation   show
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Acropolis   show
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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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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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Central city   show
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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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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 festival or 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 acti  
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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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African City Model (Deblij)   show
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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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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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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.  
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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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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 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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