6.1-6.4 APHUG Vocabulary

An absolute location of a place on Earth

• site

• situation

• capitalism

• communism

The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places

• Site

• Situation

• Capitalism

• Communism

The industrial innovations in mining and manufacturing that led to increased urban growth

• Second Urban Revolution

• First Urban Revolution

• Redevelopment

• Urban Hearth Areas

The agricultural and socio economic innovations that led to the rise of the earliest cities

• First Urban Revolution

• Second Urban Revolution

• Redevelopment

• agriculture surplus

The structuring of society into distinct socioeconomic classes, including leadership (for instance, a government or ruling class) that exercise control over goods and people

• Socioeconomic Stratification

• agricultural surplus

• capitalism

• Redevelopment

A very large and densely populated city, particularly the capital or major city of a country or region

• Metropolis

• Urban Area

• Suburb

A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city's traditional downtown or central business district

• Edge City

• Boomburb

• exurb

A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government

• Boomburb

• Edge City

• Exurb

A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families

• Exurb

• Boomburb

• Edge City

In an urban context, to move business operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs

• decentralize

• centralize

• edge city