Ecumene - permanently inhabited portion of the earth's surface - variety of types of communities with a range of population densities, Urban areas - cities with high concentrations of people, Suburbs - primarily residential areas near cities, Rural areas - farms and villages with low concentrations of people, Settlement - a place with a permanent human population, Suburbanization - involves the process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities, Satellite City - when an established town near a large city grows into a city independent of the larger one, Urban hearths - areas generally associated with river valleys in which seasonal floods and fertile soils aided the production of an AG surplus, Nodal Region - focal point in a matrix of connections, Time-Space compression - form of transportation improvements has led to urban growth (working remotely/at home), Urban System - when the location decision for a factory is dependent upon the location of other factories, Rank-size rule - Statistical relationship between largest city and next largest city based on population, Primate City - when the largest city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city, Central Place Theory - explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region, Hexagonal Hinterlands - allowed for central places of different sizes to distribute themselves in a clean pattern across the region , Threshold - size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable, Range - the distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services, Megacities - the world's largest cities and typically have more than 10 million people, Megalopolis - describes a chain of connected cities, Conurbation - merging into a single, uninterrupted urban area (several cities),

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