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A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor

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Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants live

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The study of the physical form and structure of urban places

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Changes in water drainage patterns that occur in urban areas

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A landscape that has significant meaning beyond what it simply looks like due to cultural associations

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A street pattern characterized by fewer streets organized into a hierarchy based on the amount of traffic each is intended to carry

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Restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests

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A statement written into a property deed that restricts the use of the land in some way; often used to prohibit certain groups of people from buying property

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A practice by banks and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be high risk for housing loans

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Illegal housing settlements, usually made up of temporary shelters that surround large cities

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Illegal housing settlements, usually made up of temporary shelters that surround large cities

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The outermost zone of the concentric zone model is the commuter zone, which includes the suburbs

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The illegal practice of real estate agents convincing home owners in a specific neighborhood to sell their homes, typically at a loss, by implying that the racial make-up of the neighborhood is changing, causing the property values to go down

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Need for energy and land use change

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Not much sanitation, very basic electricity if any at all, little to no clean water, usually run-down

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An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures

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The city exists on the fringes of a larger city and acts as a regional hub for recreation, business, or other commercial activity for the suburban population of the larger city

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The degree to which two or more groups live separately from one another, in different parts of an urban environment

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The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land

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The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe

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Yuppies are young urban professionals, SINKS are single individuals with no kids and DINKS are dual-income households with no kids

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A declining part of a city called blight so that people come back and area thrives once more

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Urban renewal that leads to the displacement of the occupying demographic

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Parts of large urban areas that lose significant portions of their populations as a result of change in industry or migration to suburbs

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A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources

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An urban planning scheme aims to bring about long term change and improvement to an urban environment

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A megalopolis or a continuous, extended urban area formed by the growing together of several formerly separate, expanding cities and their suburbs with little or no rural land in between

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A city that functions as by far the largest city in the country it inhabits

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If the settlements in a country are ranked by population size, the population of a settlement ranked n will be 1/nth of the size of the largest settlement

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In any given region there can only be one large central city, which is surrounded by a series of smaller cities, towns, and hamlets

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One of the dominant factors affecting the development of contemporary cities

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A city that is described as a Concentric Zone Model city will have a central business district which is surrounded by a series of rings with varying levels of development. Generally the closest ring will be for low quality housing and the furthest ring will be for suburban housing

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The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge

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Transition in global urban population by cities

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Transition in global urban population by cities

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A shift in a population from one that is dispersed across small rural settlements, in which agriculture is the dominant economic activity

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Giant urban areas that include surrounding cities and suburbs

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A term for megacities that emphasizes their global impact as centers of economic, political, and social power

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Migrating from a rural area to an urban area (city)

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Most urban growth is currently occurring in developing regions of the world

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Two or more nearby cities, potentially or actually complementary in function, that cooperate by developing transportation links and communications infrastructure joining them

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A city that acts as a port of entry into a country or a large geographic region

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Central markets for colonies' crops, ores, and other output

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The urban hierarchy ranks each city based on the size of population residing within the nationally defined statistical urban area

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Tributary region, either rural or urban or both, that is closely linked economically with a nearby town or city

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Basic settlement forms: linear, grouped, string, cluster, round, grid, walled, and rural

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Basic settlement forms: linear, grouped, string, cluster, round, grid, walled, and rural

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Different types of settlements. Linear - a (normally small to medium-sized) settlement or group of buildings that is formed in a long line
Grouped - a settlement pattern that has houses grouped together
String - a linear pattern that is put near transportation for people to get to work
Cluster - the settlement in which the houses are closely built up and compact
Round - the settlement is arranged in a round shape
Grid - a type of settlement plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid
Walled - a settlement that is walled off usually for protection
Rural - displaced populations settle on land outside of cities and town

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The movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities- a major force in every geographic realm today

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cities that arose during the Middle Ages and that actually represent a time of relative stagnation in urban growth

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Early cities developed in a number of regions, from Mesopotamia to Asia to the Americas

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A  permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks

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The study of how people use space in cities