Review for Vocab 6 APHG

The exact location of a place, along with its physical features

• site

• situation

The location of a city in relation to its surrounding features

• site

• situation

The act of real estate agents trying to get white home owners to sell their property for lower prices using the fear of minorities moving in to their neighborhoods

• Infilling

• Blockbusting

• Redlining

The act of taking vacant lots or abandoned zones and turning them into new buildings or housing

• Infilling

• Blockbusting

• Redlining

An area on the edge of an urban area with many offices and retail activities.

• Edge city

• Primate city

• Suburb

An area designed to be residential and on the outskirts of a city

• suburb

• Edge city

• Primate city

A city with a population at least two times the population of the next largest city in the country and is the center of political & economic power.

• Edge city

• Primate city

• Suburb

The idea that all cities following the largest city in a country should have a population 1/nth that of the largest city

• Rank-Size Rule

• Megacity

• Metacity

An urban area with a population that exceeds 10 million

• Rank-Size Rule

• Megacity

• Metacity

An urban area with a population that exceeds 20 million

• Rank-Size Rule

• Megacity

• Metacity