APHG Vocab chp 15 Flashcards
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What is an urban hearth?
An area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soils allowed for an agricultural surplus.
How is an Urban Area defined?
It is defined as a central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes, including the surrounding suburbs.
What are pedestrian cities?
Cities shaped by the distances people could walk.
What is a suburb?
Primarily residential areas near cities.
How is a city defined?
A higher-density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries.
What are streetcar suburbs?
Communities that grew up along rail lines, often creating a pinwheel shaped city.
What is a settlement?
Defined as permanent human dwellings where people live and interact, ranging from small villages to large cities.
What is a metropolitan area (metro)?
A collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across which population density is high and continuous.
What is suburbanization?
The process by which people move from urban areas to the outskirts or suburbs, often resulting in the growth of residential communities outside city centers.
What is urbanization?
An ongoing process that does not end once a city is formed.
What is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)?
Consists of a city of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration or connection with the urban core.
What is sprawl?
The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city, occurring for numerous reasons such as growth of suburbs and lower land costs.
What does percent urban indicate?
It indicates the proportion of the population that lives in cities and towns compared to those that live in rural areas.
What is a Micropolitan Statistical Area?
Cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants (but less than 50,000), the county in which they are located, and surrounding counties with a high degree of integration.
What is leap-frog development?
A process where developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the city’s built area.
What does site refer to?
Describes the characteristics at the immediate location, such as physical features, climate, labor force, and human structures.
What is a nodal region?
A focal point in a matrix of connections.
What are boomburbs?
Rapidly growing communities (over 10 percent per 10 years) with a total population of over 100,000 people, and are not the largest city in the metro area.
What does situation refer to?
The location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.
What is social heterogeneity?
The population of cities, as compared to other areas, contains a great variety of people.
What are edge cities?
Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities.
What is a market area?
Refers to the geographic zone in which a business or service attracts its customers, based on factors like location and accessibility.
What are hexagonal hinterlands?
The areas surrounding a central place, visualized as hexagons, that are served by that central place for goods and services.
What is a threshold?
The size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable.
