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Across
  1. 2. Place Theory- seeks to explain the tendency for central places to be organized in hierarchical systems, analyzing the relative size of geographic spacing of towns and cities as the function of consumer behavior
  2. 6. System- (or city system) an interdependent set of urban settlement within a given region
  3. 7. was a rigid, rurally oriented form of economic and social organization based on communal chiefdoms; unlikely beginning of elaborate urban system
  4. 9. City- serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation; control centers that command entrance to and exit from a country or region
  5. 10. Partnerships- happen between city governments and real estate developers
  6. 12. very large city characterized by both primacy and high degree of centrality within its national economy
  7. 13. occurs when cities grow more rapidly than they can sustain jobs and housing
  8. 14. Sites- are former industrial or commercial lands where future use is affected by real or perceived environmental contamination
  9. 15. refers to the increasing proportion of a country or a region's population living in cities
  10. 16. City- deliberately established or developed as administrative or commercial centers by colonial or imperial powers
  11. 17. describes the way of life fostered by urban settings, in which the number, physical density, and variety of people often result in distinctive attitudes, values, and patterns of behavior
Down
  1. 1. the functional dominance of cities within an urban system; occurs when a city's economic, political, and cultural functions are disproportionate to their population
  2. 3. Rule- describes a certain statistical regularity in the city-size distributions of countries and regions
  3. 4. occurs when cities experience a net loss of population to smaller towns and rural areas
  4. 5. involves the physical redevelopment of land where the existing buildings are no longer useful or profitable
  5. 8. is when the population of the largest city in an urban system is disproportionately large in relation to the second and third largest cities
  6. 11. occurs when there is a growing population in the metropolitan areas of core countries following a period of decline in population
  7. 18. City- one that is seen at the time as the embodiment of surprising and disturbing changes in economic, social, and cultural life