aphg unit 7 vocab

What is Centrality?

• The functional dominance of cities within an urban system

• Is the process by which the activities of an organization

the transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity

• Commuter zone

• Commercialization

• Concentric Zone Model

• Decentralization

What is an edge city?

• cities of the ancient world

• a community's collection of basic industries

• city currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate

• a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area

the invasions of older, centrally located working class neighborhoods by higher income households seeking the character and convenience of less expensive and well-located residences

• Ghetto

• Gentrification

the area surrounding a cental place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services

• Suburbs

• Hinterland

An apartment building, especially one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety or maintenance up keep.

• Tenement

• Ghetto

Most important centers of economic power and wealth.

• Four Asian Tigers

• World Cities

• Urban morphology

Primate City

• the area or region around or near some place or thing

• a city in which an economic transition has occurred from a manufacturing based economy to a service-based economy

• the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement

• a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities

commuting between two suburbs

• Lateral commuting

• New Urbanism

• Inner City

• Invasion and succession

a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings

• Commuter zone

• Counterurbanization

• Decenteralization

• Concentric Zone