All vocab terms for units 5-8 in Barron's
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| show | A boundary line established before an area is populated
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| Balkanization | show 🗑
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| Buffer State | show 🗑
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| show | Forces that tend to divide a country
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| show | Forces that tend to unite or bind a country together
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| Colonialism | show 🗑
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| Commonwealth of Independant States | show 🗑
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| Compact state | show 🗑
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| Confederation | show 🗑
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| show | The idea that political destabilization in one country can lead to collapse of political stability in neighboring countries starting a chain reaction of collapse
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| East/West Divide | show 🗑
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| show | A certain number of electors from each state proportional to and seemingly representative of that state's population.
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| Electoral Vote | show 🗑
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| Elongated State | show 🗑
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| show | Any small and relatively homogenous group or region surrounded by another larger and different group or region
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| show | International organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members
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| Exclave | show 🗑
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| show | A system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government
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| Fragmented state | show 🗑
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| Frontier | show 🗑
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| Geometric Boundary | show 🗑
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| Geopolitics | show 🗑
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| show | The designation of voting districts so as to favor a particular political party or candidate
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| Heartland Theory | show 🗑
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| show | The perpetuation of a colonial empire even after it is no longer politically sovereign
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| International Organization | show 🗑
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| Landlocked State | show 🗑
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| Law of the Sea | show 🗑
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| show | Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German People
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| Microstate | show 🗑
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| show | A tightly knit group of individuals sharing a common language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes
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| show | A sense of national pride to such an extent as exaulting one nation above all others
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| Nation-state | show 🗑
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| show | Agreement signed on January 1, 1994 that allows the opening of borders between the United States, Mexico, and Canada
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | show 🗑
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| show | The economic division between the wealthy countries of Europe, N. America, Japan, and Australia, and the generally poorer countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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| Organic Theory | show 🗑
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| Organization of Petoleum Expoting Countries | show 🗑
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| show | A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state
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| show | Political boundaries that correspond with prominent physical features such as mountain ranges or rivers
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| Political Geography | show 🗑
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| Popular vote | show 🗑
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| Prorupted State | show 🗑
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| show | The process of a reallocation of electoral seats to defined territories
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| Rectangular State | show 🗑
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| show | The drawing of new elcoral boundary lines in response to population changes
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| Relic Boundaries | show 🗑
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| show | Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the costal fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest
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| show | The right of a nation to govern itself autonomously
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| show | Supreme or independant political power
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| show | A pollically organized territory that is administered by a sovereugn government and is recognized by the international community
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| show | Rights and Powers believed to be in the authority of the state rather than the federal government
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| show | Boundary line drawn in an area ignoring the existing culural pattern
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| show | Organization of thee or more states to promote shared objecives
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| Territorial Dispute | show 🗑
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| Territorial Orgaization | show 🗑
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| show | A state whose government is either beilieved to be divinely or a state under the control of a religious group of leaders
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| Unitary State | show 🗑
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| United Nations | show 🗑
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| Agglomeration | show 🗑
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| show | Economic activities that surround and support large-scale industries such as shipping and food service
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| Anthropocentric | show 🗑
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| Least-Cost Theory | show 🗑
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| Least-Developed Countries | show 🗑
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| show | A region in which manufacturing activities have culstered together
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| show | Those US firms that have factories just outside the United STates/Mexican border in areas that have been specially designated by the Mexican government.
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| Net National Product | show 🗑
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| Nonrenewable resources | show 🗑
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| Offshore Financial Center | show 🗑
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| show | Sending industrial processes out for external production
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| Periphery | show 🗑
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| Primary Ecnomic Acitivities | show 🗑
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| Producivity | show 🗑
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| Purchasing Power Parity | show 🗑
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| show | Economic activities concerned with research information gathering and administration
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| show | The most advanced form of quaternary activities consisting of high-level decision making for large corporations or high-level scientific research
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| show | The process by which specific regions acquire characteristics that differentiate them from others within the same country
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| show | Any natural resource that can replenish itslef in a relaively short period of time usually no longer than the length of a human life
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| show | A model of economic development that describes a country's progression which occurs in five stages transforming them from least-developed to most-developed countries
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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| show | Economic activities concerned with the processesing of raw materials such a manufacturing, construction, and power generation
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| Semi-periphery | show 🗑
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| show | Highly developed economies that focus on research and development, marketing, tourism, sales, and telecommunication
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| show | The developing world that does not experience the benefits of high-speed telecommunications and transportation technology
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| Spatially Fixed Costs | show 🗑
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| show | An input cost in manufacturing that changes significantly from place to place
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| Specialty Goods | show 🗑
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| Sustainable Development | show 🗑
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| show | Activities that provide the market exchange of goods and that bring together consumers and providers of services
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| show | A firm that conducts business in at least two separate countries; also multinational
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| World Cities | show 🗑
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| show | Theory developed by Immanuel Wallerstein that explains the emergence of a core, periphery, and semi-periphery in terms of economic and political connections first established at the beginning of exploration
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| show | The set of economic and political relationships that organize food production for commercial purposes
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| show | The art and science of producing food from the land and tending livestock for the purpose of human consumption
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| Animal Husbandry | show 🗑
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| Biotechnology | show 🗑
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| show | Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods
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| show | All agricultural activity generated for the purpose of selling
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| show | An agricultural activity involving the raising of livestock most commonly cows and goats for dairy products such as milk cheese and butter
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| show | The process by which formerly fertile lands become increasingly arid unproductive and desert-like
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| show | The conscious manipulation of plant and animal species by humans in order to sustain themselves
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| show | An agricultural system characterized by low inputs of labor per unit land area
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| show | Places where livestock are concentrated in a very small area and raised on hormones and hearty grains that prepare them for slaughter at a much more rapid rate than grazing
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| show | Area located in the cresent-shaped zone near the southwestern Mediterranean coast which was once a lush environment and one of the first hearths of domestication and thus agricultural activity
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| Genetically Modified | show 🗑
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| show | The development of higher-yield and fast-growing crops through increaed technology
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| Hunting and Gathering | show 🗑
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| Industrial Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | Any kind of agricultural activity that involves effective and efficent use of labor on small plots land to maximize crop yield
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| show | Type of agriculture that requires large levels of manual labor to be successful
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| show | An extensive commercial agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock over vast geographic spaces typically located in semi-arid climates like the American West
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| show | In agriculture the replacement of human labor with technology or machines
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| show | An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean-style climates of Western Europe, California, and portions of chile and Australia in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes avocados and olives comprise profitable agricultural operations
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| Pastoralism | show 🗑
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| Pesticides | show 🗑
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| Planned Agricultural Economy | show 🗑
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| Plantation | show 🗑
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| show | Process that occurs when soils in arid areas brought under cultivation through irrigation.
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| show | The use of tropical forest clearings for crop production until their fertility is lost.
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| show | System of cultivation that usually exists in tropical areas where vegetation is cut close to the ground and then ignited.
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| Specialty Crops | show 🗑
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| show | Any farm economy in which most crops are grown for nearly exclusive family consumption
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| show | Land that is prepared for agriculture by using the slash-and-burn method
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| Topsoil Loss | show 🗑
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| Transhumance | show 🗑
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| show | The process of urban areas expanding outwards usually in the forms of suburbs and developing over fertile agricultural land
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| show | An agricultural model that spatially describes agricultural activity in terms of rent.
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| show | The geographical area that contains the space an individual interacts with on a daily basis
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| show | This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older classical forms with newer industrial ones
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| Central Business District | show 🗑
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| Central place Theory | show 🗑
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| City Beautiful Movement | show 🗑
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| show | Cities established by colonizing empires as admistrative centers
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| Concentric Zone Model | show 🗑
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| Edge City | show 🗑
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| European Cities | show 🗑
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| Exurbanite | show 🗑
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| Feudal City | show 🗑
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| show | Cities that because of their geographic location act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas
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| show | The trend of middle and upper-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations and changing he social character of certain neighborhoods
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| show | A process occuring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs adn resources
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| Inner city Decay | show 🗑
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| show | Cities in muslim countries that owe their structure to their religious beliefs
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| show | Cities in Latin America that owe their structure to colonialism the rapid rise of industrialization and continual rapid increases in population
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| show | Cities mostly characteritic of the developing world where high population growth and migration have caused them to explode in population since WWII
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| Megalopolis | show 🗑
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| Metropolitan Area | show 🗑
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| show | Point of view wherein cities and buildings are supposed to act like well-oiled machines with little energy spent on frivolous details or ornate designs
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| Multiple nuclei Model | show 🗑
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| show | Geographical centers of activity
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| show | A reaction in architectural design to the feeling of sterile alienation that many people get from modern architecture
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| show | A country's leading city with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country
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| show | Rule that states that the population of any given town should be inversley proportional to its rank in the country' heirarchy when the ditribution of cities according to their size follows a pattern
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| show | A model or urban land use that places the central business district in the middle with wedge shaped sectors radiating out from the center along transporation corridors
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| Segregation | show 🗑
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| Squatter Settlements | show 🗑
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| show | Residential communities located outside of city centers that are usually relatively homogeneous in population
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| show | Geographical boundaries placed around a city to limit suburban growth within that city
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| Urban Morphology | show 🗑
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| show | The process occuring in some urban areas experiencing inner city decay that usually involves the construction of new shopping districts entertainment venues and cultural attractions to entice young urban professionals back into the cities
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