Central Place - A settlement providing one or more services for the population living around it, City - A mass of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics, High Order - Settlements providing high order services; implies low order services are around it, Low Order - In Low Order settlements, the type of services offered are called (fill in blank). These are basic economic services (e.g. grocery stores), Low Order - (fill in blank) Settlements Settlements providing low order services, Urban - Area of The buildup of the central city including the suburbs, Edge City - Suburban downtowns, often located near key freeway intersections, often with office complexes, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities and sports complexes, Ethnic - (Fill in blank) Neighborhoods where part of a city dominated by an ethnic group such as Chinatown in San Francisco., Gentrification - A process in which individuals buy up and rehabilitate houses, raising the housing value in the neighborhood and changing the neighborhood, Megalopolis - An extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas such as New York City, Chicago, & Los Angeles., New Urbanism - Development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms creating walkable neighborhoods with housing diversity and jobs, Primate City - A country’s leading city, which is disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities in the country such as Paris and London, Commercialization - Spaces of Consumption or, (fill in blank) where the The government helps to transform part of a city into an entertainment district, where major corporations encourage the consumption of their goods and services , Tear Downs - Old houses that are replaced with new one’s as a result of gentrification, Urban Sprawl - The unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning, World Cities - Those functioning at a global scale, beyond the reach of the state borders, functioning as the service centers of the world economy, Globalization - The process in which connections around the world are increasing & cultures are becoming more alike (convergence)., Central Business District - the commercial and business center of a city, Three Types of Services - Public, Consumer, and Business services offered in cities.,

HG Unit 5: Urbanization

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