AP HuG 6.1-6.3 REVIEW

Boomburb

• an outlying residential area of a city that is expanding rapidly (over 100,000 people)

• A conurbation with more than 20 million people

• cities with more than 10 million inhabitants

• cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized, suburban environment

• when several originally separate metropolitan areas join together because of growth on their fringes and become a large, sprawling, urban complex

Metacity

• an outlying residential area of a city that is expanding rapidly (over 100,000 people)

• A conurbation with more than 20 million people

• cities with more than 10 million inhabitants

• cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized, suburban environment

• when several originally separate metropolitan areas join together because of growth on their fringes and become a large, sprawling, urban complex

Megacities

• an outlying residential area of a city that is expanding rapidly (over 100,000 people)

• A conurbation with more than 20 million people

• cities with more than 10 million inhabitants

• cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized, suburban environment

• when several originally separate metropolitan areas join together because of growth on their fringes and become a large, sprawling, urban complex

Edge Cities

• an outlying residential area of a city that is expanding rapidly (over 100,000 people)

• A conurbation with more than 20 million people

• cities with more than 10 million inhabitants

• cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized, suburban environment

• when several originally separate metropolitan areas join together because of growth on their fringes and become a large, sprawling, urban complex

Conurbations

• an outlying residential area of a city that is expanding rapidly (over 100,000 people)

• A conurbation with more than 20 million people

• cities with more than 10 million inhabitants

• cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions as urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized, suburban environment

• when several originally separate metropolitan areas join together because of growth on their fringes and become a large, sprawling, urban complex

Explains most urban growth in developing cities of the world; Characterized by people flocking to cities in hopes of finding economic opportunity and a better way of life for themselves and/or their families

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Edge Cities

• Suburbanization

• Urban Geography

• Industrial Revolution and Urbanism

Process of expansive suburban development over large areas spreading out from a city

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Urban/Suburban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Urban Geography

• Industrial Revolution and Urbanism

Movement to residential communities, located outside of city centers, that are usually relative homogeneous in terms of population

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Urban/Suburban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Urban Geography

• Industrial Revolution and Urbanism

The study of spatial aspects of cities, both internally and in terms of spatial patterns of urban areas across the globe

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Urban/Suburban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Urban Geography

• Industrial Revolution and Urbanism

Mass production of standardized goods replaced individualized production of good by craft guilds; shifted to cities being centered on factories and more extensive social stratification of urban populations

• Rural to Urban Migration

• Urban/Suburban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Urban Geography

• Industrial Revolution and Urbanism