Unit 6 Urban Geography Vocab

The absolute location and the physical features of a particular place.

• Site
• Situation

• Threshold

• Redlining

Cities with 10 million or more residents.

• Megacities
• Metacities

• Range

• Edge Cities

Urban design that is a vibrant, livable, and walkable neighborhood made up of both residents and businesses is known as:

• Mixed-use development

• Industrial zone

• Residential area

• Commercial district

A settlement that is much larger than surrounding settlements but that also dominates the political, economic, and cultural characteristics of the region.

• Primate city
• Rank Size Rule

• Megacities

• Brownfields

The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner.

• Urban sprawl
• Boomburbs

• Bid Rent Theory

• Rank Size Rule

Property whose use or development may be complicated by the potential presence of hazardous materials or pollution.

• Brownfields
• Infrastructure

• Squatter Settlements

• Exurbs

Areas not connected to city services and is typically under control of criminals.

• Suburbs

• Downtown districts

• Gated communities

• Slums

Location of a place in reference to its surrounding physical features and human activities.

• Situation
• Site

• Rank Size

• Primate City

Larger, interconnected network of urban areas with more than 20 million residents.

• Metacities

• Megacity

• Redlining

• Urban Density

Explains how the demand for and the price of land decreases the further away a person travels from the central business district.

• Bid Rent Theory

• Distance Decay

• Brownfields

• Blockbusting