AP Human Geography: Chapter 10: Urbanization

(n.)- a built up area consisting of central city and its surrounding suburbs (similar to the term “urbanized area”, shows the extent of a city‟s influence)

(n.)- a neighborhood, usually a slum or lower class (many of the Latin American cities have these outside the central city)

Explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the CBD (explains the concentric zone model and why different levels of development are located at certain distances from the central city)

(v.)- the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value (explains the white flight of the 1950‟s and the growth of suburbs)

(n.)- stands for central business district, location of skyscrapers and companies (would always be the center of the 3 urban models, many people commute, few actually live there)

(n.)- these are govt. designated areas in cities that each have ~5,000 people, they often times correspond to neighborhoods (data in census tracts is used to analyze urban patterns such as gentrification or white flight)

(n.)- the strength of dominance of an urban center over its surrounding area, larger than the MSA or agglomeration (Twin Cities centrality extends up into northern MN, over into ND, SD, and western WI)

(n.)- the movement of people, capital, services, and govt. into the central city (opposite of suburban sprawl, happened to cities before WWII and is happening now)

He created the Central Place Theory, which explains how services are distributed and why there are distinct patterns in this distribution (central place theory involves market area/hinterland and the threshold, which is the minimum number of customers needed to keep the business running)

(n.)- centralized area with a mayor and local government, usually bigger than a town (cities started in the Greek/Roman times, more and more people live in cities, especially in LDCs)

(n.)- similar to a landscape, yet of a city (cityscapes often show the city‟s skyline, which is the CBD).

(n.)- cities founded by colonial powers, such as Mexico City by the Spanish (these often contain plazas, large Catholic cathedrals, and historic architecture, most of these are in Latin America and in Southern Asia, in India)

(n.)- the process of the increasing importance of business (advertisements in cities, development leans toward services)

Created by E.W. Burgess, city grows outwards from a central area (CBD in middle, then zone of transition, then zone of workers‟ homes, then zone of residences, then commuter‟s zone)

(n.)- a net migration from urban to rural areas (this only happens in very developed areas in North America and Western Europe)