Shelbi Oliver 2nd Period
Across
- 5. /The central area of a major city. Those parts of large urban areas that lose significant portions of their populations. (Chapter 20,CC)
- 7. /Used in many different domains of economics and business, and was originally developed in the field of industrial organization and economic growth. The main idea beyond the concept of is that small and incremental innovations lead the dominant firm to stay ahead. (Chapter 20,VIT)
- 9. /Stores that sell things in bulk so they are cheaper per unit. Manufacturing plants and businesses that benefit from close proximity. (Chapter 19,VIT)
- 10. /The uncontrolled expansion of urban areas. Affordability and popularity of automobiles. (Chapter 20,IDK)
- 12. /A model of urban land use proposed in 1939 by land economist Homer Hoyt. The benefits of the application of this model include the fact it allows for an outward progression of growth. (Chapter 19,VIT)
- 17. /Series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution and resulting in a commodity that is then exchanged on the worlds market. The legal economy that is taxed and monitored by a government and is included in a governments gross national product. (Chapter 20,IDK)
- 19. /A technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment. Industry does not tend to develop next to high-income housing. (Chapter 19,CC)
- 22. /Buses,trains, subways, and other forms of transportation that charge set fares, run on fixed routes, and are available to the public since few people live within walking distance of their work. More extensive in Western European cities than in the United States. (Chapter 20,VIT)
- 24. land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Areas that lose significant portions of their population as a result. (Chapter 19,VIT)
- 27. /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. A relatively new term in the parlance of American urban geography. (Chapter 19,CC)
- 28. /Five distinct periods in the history of American urbanization. urban evolution. (Chapter 18,CC)
- 29. /A deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings. The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural. (Chapter 19,VIT)
- 30. /Adjacent to every town and city within which its influence is dominant. A term that applies to a surrounding area served by an urban center. (Chapter 18,IDK)
Down
- 1. /A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner to abandonment. A process of converting an urban neighborhood. (Chapter 19,CC)
- 2. /The maximum distance that people are willing to travel for a good or service whereas threshold is the minimum number of people needed for that business to survive. International company headquarters. (Chapter 18,CC)
- 3. COMPRESSION /By geographer David Harvey in The Condition of Post modernity, it refers to anything that impacts time and space. As measured in terms of travel time or cost. (Chapter 18,IDK)
- 4. /Studied several Southeast Asian cities and discovered some similarities between their methods of land-use. A structural model of the American central city that has five concentric land-use rings arranged. (Chapter 19,IDK)
- 6. /A form of growth that is designed in order to limit the amount of urban sprawl and preserve nature and usable farmland. Suburban neighborhoods promote urban sprawl, traffic, and excess exhaust pollution when everyone drives everywhere. (Chapter 20,CC)
- 8. /The United States refers to the power of a state or the federal government to take private property for public use while requiring "just" compensation to be given to the original owner. laws allow the government to practice urban redevelopment. (Chapter 20,CC)
- 11. /A cosmopolitan city, with resident and visiting foreigners. which is a primary node in the global economic network. (Chapter 18,VIT)
- 13. /A population shift from central urban areas into suburbs. The century included more open spaces, the perception of being closer to nature. (Chapter 18, CC)
- 14. /Areas where groups of housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. An large and densely populated settlement. (Chapter 19,CC)
- 15. /A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. a loophole in the retail market that causes weird economic turns. (Chapter 20,VIT)
- 16. /He also made significant contributions to the geographical study of ethnicity, specifically with respect to non-Russian minorities living within the Soviet Union. Multiple-nuclei model. (Chapter 19,CC)
- 18. /A collection of adjacent cities across which population density is high and continuous.a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories. (Chapter 18,VIT)
- 20. /A restricted access subdivision. Increasingly a middle-class phenomenon. (Chapter 20,VIT)
- 21. /The largest city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. Disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. (Chapter 18,VIT)
- 23. /Parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas. Many rural and urban areas in the United States are living like this. (Chapter 20,VIT)
- 25. very large city, typically one with a population of over ten million people. Can increase problems over time if not changed. (Chapter 18,VIT)
- 26. /Characteristic of a town or city;Surrounding area served by an urban center. (Chapter 18,VIT)