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AP Human Geography Human Urban and development

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show is a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate changes as the distance from the Central Business District (CBD) decreases  
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show a procerss by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices out of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood  
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Central business district   show
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show An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published in urbanized areas census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods  
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Centrality   show
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show is the process by which the activities of an organisation, particularly those regarding planning decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group  
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Central place theory   show
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Christaller Walter   show
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show Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as acenter of politics, culture and economics  
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show is the urban equivalent of a landscape  
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colonial city   show
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show the transformation of an area of a city into an an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity  
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show a structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-0use rings arranged around a common center  
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counterurbanization   show
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show the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts  
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deindustrialization   show
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early cities   show
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show a community's collection of basic industries  
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show a large node of office and retail activites on the edge of an urban area  
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Emerging cities   show
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Employment structure   show
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Entrepot   show
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show typically situated in a largerr metropolitan city and constructed by or comprised of a local culture, in which a local culture can practice its customs.  
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Favela   show
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show single mothers with kids  
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Festival landscape   show
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show a settlement which acts as a link between two areas  
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show process in which low cost neighborhoods are renovated by middle class to increase property values  
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high tech corridors   show
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show literally "country behind" surrounding area served by an urban center.  
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Hydraulic civilization   show
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show originating in and naturally living, growing, or occurring in a region or country  
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show new building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development  
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show That part of a national economy that involves productive labor not subject to formal systems of control or payment; economic activity or individual enterprise operating without official recognition or measured by official statistics  
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infrastructure   show
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show The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, often minority  
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show the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer then sequence: a following of one thing after another in time  
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Lateral commuting   show
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Medieval cities   show
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Megalopolis/conurbation   show
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Metropolitan area   show
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Multiple nuclei model   show
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show direct, indirect and induced consequences of change in an activity 1. industrial agglomerations, the cumulative process by which a given change sets in motion a sequence of further industrial employment and infrastructure growth. 2. urban geography -  
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Neighborhood   show
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show a cluster of office buildings, usually located along an interstate often forming the nucleus of an edge city.  
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show The most accessible and colstly parcel of land in the central business district and therefore in the entire urbanized area  
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show A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents  
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Postindustrial city   show
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show attempts to reconnect people to place through its architecture, the preservation of historic buildings, the re-emergence of mixed land uses, and connections among developments  
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primate city   show
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show refers to the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based  
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show In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely propportional to its rank in the hierarchy  
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show a discriminatory real estate practive in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. name from the red lines depicted on cadastral maps  
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show a statement written into a property deed that restricts the use of the land in some way often used to prohibit certain groups of people from buying propery  
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show an economic model that depicts a city as a series of pie-shaped wedges.  
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show a measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population  
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show The spatial arrangements of buildings, roads, towns and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area.  
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shopping mall   show
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show the internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location is spatial character and physical setting/the external locational attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places.  
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show A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor  
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social structure   show
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show an area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.  
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show a susidiary urban area surrounding and connnected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls.  
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suburbanization   show
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show landscapes that express the values, beliefs and meanings of a particular culture.  
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tenement   show
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threshold/range   show
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town   show
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show a group in society prevented from participation in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characterisitics.  
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show A situation in which a worker is employed, but not in the desired capacity  
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Urban growth rate   show
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show the region in which first cities were. The five urban hearths were: •Mesoamerica (200 BC) •Nile Valley (3200 BC) •Mesopotamia (3500 BC) •Indus Valley (2200 BC) •Huang Ho (1500 BC)  
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Urban heat island   show
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Urban hierarchy   show
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show Study of the effects of urban conditions on rainfall–runoff relationships  
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show the study of the physical form and structure of urban places.  
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show A term with several connotations. the proportion of a country's pop. living in urban places. involves the movement of people ot and the clustering of people in towns and cities- also occurs when an expanding city absorbs the rural countryside  
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show the proportion of the country's population living in the cities.  
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World city   show
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Zone in transition   show
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Zoning   show
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show farmers  
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show Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion  
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core-periphery model   show
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cultural convergence   show
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dependency theory   show
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show a structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development.  
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show investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business)  
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show the wide set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female entities, extending from one's biological sex to, in humans, one's social role  
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show The total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year  
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show total value of all goods and services produced by a country's economy in a given year. It includes all goods and services produced by corporations and individuals.  
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show an indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the UN combing incme literacy educatio and life expectancy  
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Levels of development   show
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neocolonialism   show
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show is an attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country  
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purchasing power parity   show
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show He wrote in defense of free enterprise economics, particularly in developing nations. famous especially for writing the book The Stages of Economic Growth: A non-communist manifesto which became a classic text in several fields of social sciences  
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show is a theoretical model for the growth of information technology (IT) in a business or similar organization  
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show The presence in a country of a technology that other countries do not have, so that it can produce and export a good whose cost might otherwise be higher than abroad  
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technology transfer   show
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Third world   show
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World systems theory   show
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agglomeration   show
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Barriadas   show
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