Urbanization AP Geo Vocab

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

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An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.

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The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

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An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.

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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatial arranged in a series of rings.

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A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States

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The change in density in an urban area from.the center to the periphery

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

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A process of change in the use of a house, for single-family owner occupancy to abandonment.

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A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner- occupied area.

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