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A settlement in which certain products and services are available to consumers
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Central place
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A theory that seeks to explain the relative size and spacing of towns and cities as a function of people's shopping behavior
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Central place theory
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The functional dominance of cities within an urban system
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Centrality
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A city that was deliberatly established or developed as an administrative or commercial center by colonial or imperial powers
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Colonial city
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The net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas
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Counterurbanization
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Serves as a link between one country or region and others because of it's physical situation
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Gateway city
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Economic activites that take place beyond official record, not subject to formalized systems of regulation or remuneration
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Informal sector
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Very large city characterized by both primacy and high centrality within its national economy
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Megacity
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Condition in which cities grow more rapidly than the jobs and housing they can sustain
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Overurbanization
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Condition in which the population of the largest city in an urban system is disproportionately large in relation to the second and third largest cities
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Primacy
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Stastical regularity in size distribution of cities and regions
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Rank-size rule
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Growth of population in metropolital central cores, following a period of absolute or relative decline in population
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Reurbanization
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City that is seen as the embodiment of surpirsing and disturbing changes in economic, social, and cultural life
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Shock city
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Fragmentation of the economic, social, and material fabric cities as a result of the selective impact of the new technologies and networked information
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Splintering urbanism
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Residential developments that occur on land that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants
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Squatter settlements
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