| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Acropolis | Central place in Greek city where religious buildings are located |
| Agora | Area in Greek city where agricultural activities usually take place |
| Egalitarian Society | Society with no stratification or any form of government |
| Fuedal City | Town that was in the medieval time in Europe |
| Folk-Preliterate City | Old society that had not yet developed a written permanent language |
| Formative Era | Time period in which humans began to settle into permanent societies |
| Little Ice Age | Sudden drastic climate reversal which can greatly impact a society |
| Manufacturing City | City where manufacturing is the predominant economic activity |
| Mercantile City | City that is primarily controlled by its market and is market by a central market square |
| Modern City | City that is urbanized, industrialized, and has suburbs |
| Postmodernism | Cities of technologically advanced societies |
| Preindustrial City | City that had not yet undergone industrialization |
| Primate City | Largest city in a country, where most of it's power lies |
| State | Area seperated with know boundaries from surrounding areas |
| Stratified Society | Societies with different levels of urban hierarchy with an urban elite and government |
| Theocratic Center | Cities that were controlled primarily by their religious beliefs or a pope |
| Transport Network | Linked places by road, river, and sea |
| Urban Banana | Area from England all the way to Japan that all urbanized into a crescent shape |
| Urban Elite | Upper class in a stratified society that makes most of the decisions |
| Urban-Industrial City | City that is both urbanized and industrialized and is highly developed |
| Urban System | All aspects of an urban society brought together into one idea |
| Basic Sector | Area that primarily produces goods intended for export |
| Blockbusting | So called "white flight" where white people were deliberately driven out of certain neighborhoods |
| Central Business District | Core of the city |
| Central City | Urban area that lies within the outer ring of residential suburbs |
| Centrality | Characteristic of urban situations that is crucial to the dvelopment of urban places and ttheir service areas |
| Central Place Theory | Theory that attempts to predict how and where central places in the urban hierarchy would be functionally and spatially distributed |
| Economic Base | All economic activities performed in a city |
| Economic Reach | The distance that services provided in a city are able to reach |
| Edge Cities | Suburban downtowns that have grown into their own cities |
| Employment Structure | Number of people employed with both basic and nonbasic jobs |
| Functional Specialization | Functions of certain products become a trait of a society, such as the automobile |
| Functional Structure | Buildings are spatially organized to perform their functions as places of commerce, production, education, etc. |
| Gated Communities | Communities which have attempted to block out crimed by fencing themselves off |
| Hinterland | Area surrounding city that contains several smaller villages and hamlets |
| Megacity | A vast metropolitan area |
| Megalopolis | Multiple citys that have grown so much that their suburbs run into each other |
| Multiplier Effect | Economic expansion in which new businesses are formed |
| Nonbasic Sector | Area that contains services that are not materialistic, such as schools or police stations |
| Racial Steering | Controlling movements of different races by tricking them to move to certain places |
| Rank-Size Rule | Population of town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the heirarchy |
| Redlining | Identification of risky neighborhoods to refuse to offer loans to in hopes of scamming the people who live there |
| Site | Refers to the physical qualites of the land that a particular city occupies |
| Situation | Refers to the quality of the resources found around or near a particular city |
| Suburb | Outlying, functionally uniform part of an urban area |
| Sunbelt | Movement of people from the southwest all through the south |
| Urban Function | Services that are provided in a certain metropolitan area |
| Urban Geography | The geography of urbanization |
| Urban Heirarchy | Ranking of clustered settlements based on their size |
| Urban Model | Model that shows the basic layout of a certain kind of city |
| Urban Realm | components of giant conurbations that function separately in certain ways but are linked together in a greater metropolitan sphere |
| Agglomeration | The spatial process of clustering by commercial enterprises for mutual advantage and benefit |
| Disamenity Sector | Area of city that contains mostly slums and run down ghettos |
| Nucleation | Urban areas surround places where a valuable natrual resource is found |
| Specialization | Sectors of a city are devoted to only one type of activity |
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