Unit 6 Vocab Core Copy

Land permanently populated by human society

• Ecumene

• Epoch

• Exurb

• Threshold

A central city, plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes

• Nodal City

• Suburb

• Urban Area

• Boomburg

Farms and villages with low concentrations of people

• Urban Sprawl

• Rural Area

• Suburbanization

• Epoch

The process of developing towns and cities

• Reurabanization

• Urbanization

• Streetcar Suburb

• Edge City

Primarily residential areas near cities

• Counter Urbanization

• Megalopolis

• Suburb

• Primate City

The process of people moving, usually from cities to residential areas on the outskirts of cities

• Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

• Suburbanization

• Micropolitan Statistical Area

• Conurbation

Characteristics at the immediate location (absolute location)

• Urban Hierarchy

• Situation

• Leapfrog Development

• Site

Location of a place relative to its surroundings and connectivity to other places

• Situation

• Market Area

• Site

• Edge City

A city consisting of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties that have a high degree of social and economic integration

• High Order Service

• Micropolitan Statistical Area

• Low Order Service

• Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

An urban cluster with a population of at least 10,000, but fewer than 50,000

• Low Order Service

• Micropolitan Statistical Area

• Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

• High Order Service