Unit 6

The physical character of a place

• Placelessness

• Landscape

• Site

• Spatial Pattern

The location of a place relative to other places

• Site

• Absolute Location

• Relational Location

• Situation

The movement of people to, and the clustering of people, in cities and the surrounding area

• White Flight

• de facto segregation

• Redlining

• Urbanization

A very large city that has a population of more than 10 million people

• Microcity

• Metacity

• Oligopolis

• Megacity

An urban area with over 20 million people

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Metropolis

• Primate City

The process of people moving from cities to adjacent residential areas

• White flight

• Exurbanization

• Suburbanization

• Agriculturization

The rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns into surrounding rural or undeveloped land

• Restrictive Urbanization

• Urban Sprawl

• Additive Urbanization

• Urban Sustainability

The outskirts of an urban area that are dense with business, entertainment, shopping, and recreation.

• Boomtown

• Exurb

• Urban Exclave

• Edge City

An area outside of a suburban area, often made up of wealthier people in more spaced out homes

• Inner City

• Outer City

• Galactic Suburb

• Exurb

Rapidly growing suburban cities with a population greater than 100,000

• Exurbs

• Boomburbs

• Edge Exponentials

• Growth Cities