AP HUG UNIT 6 VOCAB

Urban (city) growth and development

• Rank-Size Rule

• Suburbanization

• Urbanization

• Metacity

The shifting of population away from cities into surrounding suburbs

• Periphery/semi-periphery

• Urbanization

• Globalization

• Suburbanization

A place's absolute location, as well as its physical characteristics, such as the landforms, climate, and resources

EX: Latitude and longitude

• Site

• Situation

• Urban sprawl

• Exurb

Location of a place in relation to other places or its surrounding features

EX: "Its across the street from the post office by the red oak tree"

• Threshold

• Situation

• Site

• Primate City

A city with a population of more than 10 million

EX: Tokyo, Japan

• Periphery/semi-periphery countries

• Metacity

• Megacity

• Urban sprawl

A city with a population of more than 20 million

EX: Metropolitan New York area

• Periphery/semi-peripherycountries

• Meta city

• Rank-Size Rule

• Megacity

Classification of a country or region that has less wealth, lower education levels, and less sophisticated technologies and also tends to have an unstable government and poor health systems

EX: Bangladesh, Cambodia, etc:

• Walkability

• New Urbanism

• Urban sprawl

• Periphery/semi-periphery countries

Areas of poorly planned, low-density development surrounding a city

• Ghetto

• Urban sprawl

• Squatter settlement

• Blockbusting

A suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

EX: Irvine, California,; Irving, Texas; Lakewood, Colorado, and Chesapeake, Virginia

• Boomburbs

• Exurb

• Edge city

• Megacity

A typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

• Threshold

• Boomburg

• Edge city

• Exurb