Chapter 15 Vocab
Across
- 5. A type of development where developers purchase land and build communities beyond the periphery of the city's built area. (2 words no hyphen)
- 11. The rule that describes one way in which the size of cities within a region may develop. (2 words)
- 14. Cities shaped by the distances people could walk. (2 words)
- 15. Area with a high concentration of people.
- 16. Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities. (2 words)
- 18. A place with a permanent human population.
- 20. Primarily residential areas near cities.
- 23. Cities that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries. (2 words)
- 25. The permanently inhabited portion of the Earth.
- 26. Services that are usually expensive, need a large number of people to support, and are only occasionally utilized. (2 words)
- 28. A ranking of cities based on influence or population size. (2 words)
- 29. The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city.
- 31. A higher density area with territory inside officially recognized political boundaries.
- 36. A collection of adjacent cities economically connected across with population density is high and continuous. (2 words)
- 37. A zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services and surrounds a central place. (2 words)
- 38. A chain of connected cities
- 39. Cities with a continuous urban population of greater than 20 million.
- 40. A central city plus land developed for commercial, industrial, or residential purposes. (2 words)
Down
- 1. A theory that explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region. (2 words)
- 2. Services that are usually less expensive, require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis. (2 words)
- 3. The process of developing towns and cities.
- 4. Rapidly growing communities.
- 6. The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services.
- 7. A model that states that larger and closer places will have more interactions than places that are smaller and farther from each other.
- 8. The counter flow of urban residents leaving cities.
- 9. An interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional. national, and global scale. (2 words)
- 10. He described a model to describe urban growth based on transportation technology.
- 12. Communities that grew up along side rail lines (2 words)
- 13. Cities that are command centers on a regional and sometimes national level. (2 words)
- 17. Consisted of an urban center and its surrounding territory and agricultural villages. (2 words, no hyphen)
- 19. Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs.
- 21. Describes the characteristics at the immediate location.
- 22. The process of suburbanites returning to live in the city.
- 24. Refers to the location of a place relative to its surroundings and its connectivity to other places.
- 27. The shape Christaller chose to depict the market area in his Central Place theory.
- 30. The process of moving to a large residential area adjacent to an urban area.
- 32. The size of a population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable.
- 33. Areas with a low concentration of people.
- 34. A city that is more developed than other cities in the urban system, and more powerful.
- 35. An area generally associated with defensible sites and river valleys. (2 words)
- 36. Cities with a population of more than 10 million people.