ap human unit 6 vocab

The process by which people live and are employed in a city

• urbanization

• sprawl

• boomburbs

• primate city

Sparsely settled places away from the infrastructure of large cities.

• sector model

• nodal region

• rural

• city

A geographical area constituting a city or town.

• urbanization

• urban

• suburbanization

• bid rent theory

Outer districts or urban area, lower population density and higher overall per capital wealth.

• favelas

• threshold

• rural

• suburbs

A small sovereign state that is made up of a town or city and the surrounding area.

• municipal

• city state

• sustainability

• new urban design

Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, and more.

• city

• infrastructure

• sector model

• census tract

All the areas surrounding a city that can be sold to have a high level of economic integration with the city.

• suburbs

• brownfields

• incorrporation

• metropolitan area

An area organized around a central focal point or node.

• gentrification

• galactic city model

• nodal region

• urban planning

The growth of cities and urban areas into surrounding rural or undeveloped land.

• city-state

• suburbanization

• lower order services

• peripheral zone

The expansion of cities and urban areas into surrounding rural or undeveloped land.

• sprawl

• metropolitan area

• squatter settlements

• redlining