APHG - Unit 6 Vocab Flashcard

Front

Model of CBD with colonial, periodic/informal market, and traditional business center, reflecting ethnic neighborhoods and squatter settlements from rapid industrialization.

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African City Model

Front

Model of city structure by Harris and Ullman, with social groups around activity nodes.

Back

Multiple Nuclei Model

Front

Model of city structures with social groups in sectors radiating from the central business district.

Back

Sector Model

Front

Urban model explaining the impact of cars and interstate highways on U.S. metropolitan areas.

Back

peripheral/galactic city model

Front

Dominant land use on the periphery of the Latin American Model?

Back

Squatter settlements

Front

Minimum number of people to support a business:

Back

threshold

Front

Young single college grads moving into distressed inner city neighborhoods and refurbishing residences exemplify:

Back

gentrification

Front

Hoyt’s Sector Model: Location of lower income neighborhoods?

Back

Adjacent to the industrial and transportation corridor.

Front

Theory explaining city size & distribution based on competitive supply of goods/services. Larger centers have bigger hinterlands; smaller ones have less specialty goods.

Back

Central Place Theory

Front

Pattern of settlements where the largest has over twice the population of the second largest.

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Primate City Rule