AP Human Geo Unit 6 Word Scramble
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| threshold/range | in central place theory the size of the population required to make provision of goods and services economically feasible. |
| postmodern urban landscape | 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 |
| gender | 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 |
| Hinterland | literally "country behind" surrounding area served by an urban center. |
| Bid rent theory | 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 |
| City | Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as acenter of politics, culture and economics |
| neocolonialism | The entrenchment of the colonial order, such as trade and investment under a new guise. |
| squatter settlement | 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. |
| Gross Domestic Product | The total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year |
| primate city | a country's largest city ranking atop the urban hierachy |
| Measures of development | |
| concentric zone model | a structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-0use rings arranged around a common center |
| redlining | 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 |
| cultural convergence | is the contact and interaction of one country to another |
| commuter Zone | |
| dependency theory | a strucuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. political and economic relations between countries have controlled and limit the extent to which regions can develop |
| early cities | |
| Centrality | the strength of an urban center in its capacity to attrac producers and consumers to its facilities a city's reach into the surrounding region |
| Urban morphology | the study of the physical form and structure of urban places. |
| slum | A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor |
| Hydraulic civilization | or water monopoly empire, is a social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to water |
| Favela | is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. |
| decentralization | the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts |
| Gentrification | process in which low cost neighborhoods are renovated by middle class to increase property values |
| Female headed household | single mothers with kids |
| Humann Development Index | an indicator of the level of development for each country, constructed by the UN combing incme literacy educatio and life expectancy |
| Third world | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively |
| Urbanization | 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 |
| Rostow, W. W. | 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 |
| "Stages of Growth" model | is a theoretical model for the growth of information technology (IT) in a business or similar organization |
| racial steering | refers to the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based |
| Indigenous city | originating in and naturally living, growing, or occurring in a region or country |
| Ethnic neighborhood | 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. |
| tenement | a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards |
| Zoning | legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowd to take place in certain areas. |
| Metropolitan area | In the U.S. a large functionally integrated settlement area comprising one or more whole county units and usually containing several urbanized areas it operates as a coherent economic whole |
| Invasion and succession | the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer then sequence: a following of one thing after another in time |
| suburbanization | movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions |
| Office park | a cluster of office buildings, usually located along an interstate often forming the nucleus of an edge city. |
| agricultural labor force | farmers |
| agglomeration | process involving the clustering or concentrating of people or activities. refers to manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close poximity because they share skilled labor pools and technological and finacial amenities |
| restrictive covenants | 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 |
| deindustrialization | is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial |
| commercialization | the transformation of an area of a city into an an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity |
| Levels of development | per capita levels of income, the structure of the economy, and various social indicators are typically used as measures for determining whether countries are developing or developed. |
| planned communities | A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents |
| World city | dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy. Not the world's biggest city in terms of population or industrial output, but centers of strategic control of the world economy |
| In-filling | new building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development |
| Barriadas | Squatter settlements or shantytowns that surround Lima and other urban centers. Since the late 1960s, these settlements have been also known as pueblos jóvenes (young towns |
| segregation | a measure of the degree to which members of a minority group are not uniformly distributed among the total population |
| Lateral commuting | traveling from one suburb to another in going to from home to work |
| Blockbusting | 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 |
| Centralization | 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 |
| counterurbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries |
| foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
| Inner city | The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, often minority |
| Postindustrial city | area where economic development in which service activities become relatively more important than goods production, professional and technical employment supersedes employment in agriculture and manufacturing |
| calorie consumption | Food energy is the amount of energy in food that is available through digestion |
| Neighborhood | a small social area within a city where residents share values and concerns and interact with one another on a daily basis |
| infrastructure | The basic structure of services installations and facilities needed to support industrial agricultural and other economic development included are transport and communications along with water power and other public utilities |
| rank-size rule | 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 |
| Multiple nuclei model | The postulate that large cities develop by peripheral spread not from one central business district but from several nodes of growth, each of pecialized use. The separately expanding use districts eventually coalesce at their margins. |
| Urbanized population | the proportion of the country's population living in the cities. |
| street pattern(grid, dendritic; access, control) | |
| Entrepot | a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties; "Bahrain has been an entrepot of trade between Arabia and India since the second millennium BC" |
| core-periphery model | Higher wages and prices are found at the core while the lack of employment in the periphery keeps wages low there. The result may well be a balance of payments crisis at the periphery |
| settlement form | The spatial arrangements of buildings, roads, towns and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area. |
| informal sector | 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 |
| Employment structure | the percentage of people employed in each of the four major employment sectors |
| Economic base | a community's collection of basic industries |
| symbolic landscape | landscapes that express the values, beliefs and meanings of a particular culture. |
| Gateway city | a settlement which acts as a link between two areas |
| Census tract | 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 |
| Urban hearth area | 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) |
| Peak land value intersection | The most accessible and colstly parcel of land in the central business district and therefore in the entire urbanized area |
| town | a nucleated settlement that contains a central business district but that is small and less functionally complex than a city. |
| Multiplier effect | 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 - |
| development | a structuralist theory that offers a critique of the modernization model of development. |
| technology gap | 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 |
| underclass | 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. |
| Central business district | the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
| purchasing power parity | The theory that, in the long run, identical products and services in different countries |
| edge city | a large node of office and retail activites on the edge of an urban area |
| Uraban hydrology | Study of the effects of urban conditions on rainfall–runoff relationships |
| underemployment | A situation in which a worker is employed, but not in the desired capacity |
| colonial city | cities arose in societies that fell under the domination of Europe and North America in the early expansion of the capitalist world system |
| Urban hierarchy | a rnaking of settlements according to their size and economic functions |
| Physical quality of life index | is an attempt to measure the quality of life or well-being of a country |
| sector model | an economic model that depicts a city as a series of pie-shaped wedges. |
| Christaller Walter | central place theory |
| Urban heat island | is a metropolitan area which is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas |
| shopping mall | A shopping center with stores and businesses facing a system of enclosed walkways |
| technology transfer | The sharing of technological information through education and training; The use of a concept or product from one technology to solve a problem in an unrelated one |
| energy consumption | |
| high tech corridors | areas along or near major transportation arteries that are devoted to the research, development and sale of high technology products. These areas develop because of the networking and synergistic advantages of concentrating high-technology enterprises |
| Zone in transition | the inner city area around the CBD. It is a zone of mixed land uses, ranging from car parks and derelict buildings to slums, cafes and older houses, often converted to offices or industrial use. |
| Megalopolis/conurbation | term used to designate large coalescing supercities that are formingin diverse parts of the world. "M" to refer to the Boston to Washington corridor.lowercase "m" as a synoym for conurbation |
| World systems theory | is a view of the recent five centuries of world history, historical and current applications of some, but by no means all, tenets of Marxism as well as ideas by a range of theorists from Adam Smith to Max Weber, to studying international relations |
| Gross national product | 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. |
| Festival landscape | a landscape of cultural festivities |
| social structure | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships |
| suburb | a susidiary urban area surrounding and connnected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls. |
| Emerging cities | |
| Central place theory | theory proposed by Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatialy distributed with respects to one another |
| site/situation | 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. |
| Medieval cities | Walled cities include city gates, watch towers and fortified bridges |
| Urban function | |
| Urban growth rate | which is the process by which there is an increase in proportion of a population living in places classified as urban |
| cityscapes | is the urban equivalent of a landscape |
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