Across
- 3. The possibility of change that results from people living together in cities.
- 7. The urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs.
- 11. The internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting.
- 12. The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low‐income inner‐city residents.
- 14. A relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture. Starting over 10,000 years ago, people began to cluster in agricultural villages as they stayed in one place to tend their crops.
- 16. One of two components, together with social stratification, that enable the formation of cities; agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is then sold for consumption by others.
- 18. The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity.
- 19. The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords.
- 20. Unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
- 22. Areas of a city, the main purpose of which is to encourage people to consume goods and services; driven primarily by the global media industry.
- 23. The innovation of the city, which occurred independently in five separate hearths.
- 25. The entire built‐up, nonrural area and its population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages. Provides a better picture of the dimensions and population of such an area than the delimited municipality (central city) that forms its heart.
- 28. Area of a city with a relatively uniform land use (e.g. an industrial zone, or a residential zone).
- 29. One of two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige.
- 35. The movement of millions of Americans from northern and northeastern States to the South and Southwest regions (Sunbelt) of the United States.
- 39. In ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded.
- 40. The downtown heart of a central city, marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings.
- 41. In the context of local cultures or customs, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs.
- 42. Chronologically, the third urban hearth, dating to 2200 BCE.
- 43. an early adopter of a cultural practice or trait that becomes a central locale from which the practice or trait further diffuses.
Down
- 1. Region of great cities (e.g. Ur and Babylon) located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; chronologically the first urban hearth, dating to 3500 BCE, and which was founded in the Fertile Crescent.
- 2. Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods. In the resulting outmigration, real estate agents profit through the turnover of properties.
- 4. Chronologically the fifth urban hearth, dating to 200 BCE.
- 5. holds that in a model urban hierarchy, the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
- 6. Homes referred to as such because of their “super size” and similarity in appearance to other such homes; homes often built in place of tear‐downs in American suburbs.
- 8. cities with 10 million or more residents.
- 9. Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard.
- 10. Group of decision‐makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others.
- 13. Chronologically, the fourth urban hearth
- 15. Homes bought in many American suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with much larger homes often referred to as McMansions.
- 17. The study of the physical form and structure of urban places.
- 21. Literally “high point of the city.” The upper fortified part of an ancient Greek city, usually devoted to religious purposes.
- 23. The focal point of ancient Roman life combining the functions of the ancient Greek acropolis and agora.
- 24. Outlined by a group of architects, urban planners, and developers from over 20 countries, an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.
- 26. The division of a city into different regions or zones (e.g. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions (e.g. housing or manufacturing).
- 27. Restricted neighborhoods or subdivisions, often literally fenced in, where entry is limited to residents and their guests. Although predominantly high‐income based, in North America gated communities are increasingly a middle‐class phenomenon.
- 28. Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas. In the United States, areas are most commonly divided into separate zones of residential, retail, or industrial use.
- 30. Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another.
- 31. The external locational attributes of a place; its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places.
- 32. A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. The practice derived its name from the red lines depicted on cadastral maps used by real estate agents and developers. Today, redlining is officially illegal.
- 33. Economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government; and is not included in that government's Gross National Product (GNP); as opposed to a formal economy.
- 34. Chronologically the second urban hearth, dating to 3200 BCE.
- 35. Movement of upper‐ and middle‐class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century.
- 36. A term introduced by American journalist Joel Garreau in order to describe the shifting focus of urbanization in the United States away from the Central Business District (CBD) toward new loci of economic activity at the urban fringe. These cities are characterized by extensive amounts of office and retail space, few residential areas, and modern buildings (less than 30 years old).
- 37. A country's largest city—ranking atop the urban hierarchy—most expressive of the national culture and usually (but not always) the capital city as well.
- 38. Developed by geographer T.G. McGee, a model showing similar land‐use patterns among the medium‐sized cities of Southeast Asia.