EO7 - Chapters 18,19,20 Flashcards
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Ecumene
Inhabited land.
Urban
Areas (cities) with high concentrations of people.
Rural
Residential areas near cities.
Suburb
Farms and villages. Areas with low concentrations of people.
Settlement
A place with a permanent human population.
Urbanization
Process of developing towns and cities.
Percent urban
Percent comparing population living in urban areas to population living in rural areas in a region.
Suburbanization
Process of people moving from cities to residential areas in the suburbs.
Reurbanization
Suburbanites return to live in the city.
Exurbinization
Suburbanites move further into rural areas.
Satellite city
Established town near a very large city that has become independent.
City-states
Sovereign state that is made up of a city as the urban center and the territory surrounding it along with agricultural villages.
Urban hearths
First emergences of cities. Areas associated with river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soils aided the production of agricultural surplus.
Metropolitan area, Metro area
Collection of adjacent cities in which the population density is high and continuous.
Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
Consists of a city of at least 50,000 people. Its own county and adjaicent counties have a high degree of social and economic connection with the urban core.
Micropolitan statistical area
Cities with 10,000-50,000 inhabitants. The county and surrounding counties connect to the central city.
Nodal region
An area organized around a central focal point or node. The node dominates over the surrounding area.
Social heterogeneity
Population of cities compared to other areas contains a great variety of people.
Time-space compression
Time reduces as something diffuses to a distant place. Result of improvement in communication and transportation.
Borchert’s model
Describes urban growth based on transportation technology. Each new form of technology changes people’s way of transporting themselves and goods between areas.
Pedestrian cities
Cities shaped by distances people could walk.
Streetcar suburbs
Communities that grew up along rail lines, emerged, often creating a pinwheel shaped city.
Urban system
Interdependent set of cities in a region.
Gravity model
Explains that places larger and closer will have more interaction than places smaller and further.
