unit 6 vocabulary human geography

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a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

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boomburb

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a theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surrounding cities

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Central place theory

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a type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

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Edge city

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a typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

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exurb

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a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation

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Gravity model

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redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

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infill

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a city with a population of more than 10 million

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megacity

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a city with a population of more than 20 million

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metacity

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a city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

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Metropolitan area

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the largest city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population

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Primate city