Across
- 8. An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities
- 9. A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
- 12. The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs and drug lords
- 13. The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe
- 14. Movement of people from rural areas to cities
- 15. Rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character even as it reaches populations more typical of a large city
- 16. A model of urban land use developed by C.D Harris and E.L. Ullman based on separated & specialized multiple nuclei
- 19. Contains a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent commmunities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that core
- 21. The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans
- 24. The location of a place relative to other places
- 26. A city with a population over 20 million
- 28. Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce
- 30. A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants
- 32. 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
- 34. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state
- 35. The rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space and time
- 36. Explains the spatial organization of settlements and hinterlands, their relative location, and size
- 37. The net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas
- 38. The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
Down
- 1. A good or service usually expensive, that people only buy occasionally, these are usually located in larger towns and cities with a large market area accessible to a large number of people
- 2. A ranking of settlements according to the size and economic functions
- 3. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
- 4. Cities with more than 10 million people
- 5. Economic activity that thrives with curbside, car-side, and stall-based businesses that often hire people temporarily and do not follow all regulations; part of the economy that is not taxed
- 6. A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
- 7. Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburbann environment
- 10. A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
- 11. A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
- 17. An area like Mesopotamia, China, India, or the Nile Valley where large cities first existed
- 18. The physical character of a place
- 19. A very large, heavily populated city or urban complex
- 20. The areas of a city devoted to where people live rather than to commercial or industrial functions
- 22. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
- 23. Provided by small centers, a good or service, usually inexpensive items that people buy often a regular, often daily basis
- 25. The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
- 27. A mathematical formula that describes the level of interaction between two places, based on the size of their populations and their distance from each other
- 29. A model that shows cities develop in a series of sectors radiating out from a CBD
- 31. A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs
- 33. Residential areas surrounding a city