AP Human geography unit 6 flashcards lalala

Suburbanization

• A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions.

• Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.

• cities with more than 10 million people

• The population of a city/town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

urban hierarchy

• The population of a city/town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

• Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.

• cities with more than 10 million people

• A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions.

Megacities

• The population of a city/town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

• cities with more than 10 million people

• A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

• a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system

Rank-Size Rule (Zipf's Law)

• a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system

• A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

• The population of a city/town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

• A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

Primate city

• A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

• a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system

• A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

• This model was devised in the 1920s by Ernest Burgess to predict and explain the growth patterns of North American urban spaces. Its main principle is that cities can be viewed from above as a series of concentric rings; as the city grows and expands, new rings are added and old ones change character. Key elements of the model are the central business district and the peak land value intersection.

Christaller's central place theory

• A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

• a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system

• This model was devised in the 1920s by Ernest Burgess to predict and explain the growth patterns of North American urban spaces. Its main principle is that cities can be viewed from above as a series of concentric rings; as the city

• the theory of urban structure that a city develops in a series of certain sectors, instead of rings.

Gravity model

• describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city

• the theory of urban structure that a city develops in a series of certain sectors, instead of rings.

• This model was devised in the 1920s by Ernest Burgess to predict and explain the growth patterns of North American urban spaces. Its main principle is that cities can be viewed from above as a series of concentric rings; as the city grows and expands, new rings are added and old ones change character. Key elements of the model are the central business district and the peak

• A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

Burgess concentric-zone model

• describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city

• the theory of urban structure that a city develops in a series of certain sectors, instead of rings.

• This model was devised in the 1920s by Ernest Burgess to predict and explain the growth patterns of North American urban spaces. Its main principle is that cities can be viewed from above as a series of concentric rings; as the city grows and expands, new rings are added and old ones

• last half of the twentieth century, represents the post-industrial city, many suburban CBDs have become specialized toward a particular sector

Hoyt sector model

• Blends traditional Latin American culture with the forces of globalization. The CBD is dominant; it is divided into a market sector and a modern high-rise sector. The elite residential sector is on the extension of the CBD in the

• last half of the twentieth century, represents the post-industrial city, many suburban CBDs have become specialized toward a particular sector

• describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city

• the theory of urban structure that a city develops in a series of certain sectors, instead of rings.

Zones of Abandonment

• Contaminated industrial or commercial sites that may require environmental cleanup before they can be redeveloped or expanded

• spread of suburbs away from the core city

• The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents.

• Areas that no longer have value to investors and are abandoned by businesses