Urban Geography Concepts

Front

urbanization

Back

The movement of people to, and the clustering of people in, towns and cities

Front

metacity

Back

urban areas with over 20 million people

Front

suburbanization

Back

The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe

Front

Rank-size rule

Back

Explanation of size of cities within a country; states the second largest city will be one-half the size of the largest, the third largest will be the-third the size of the largest, and so on

Front

Urban sprawl

Back

The expansion of cities and urban areas into surrounding rural or undeveloped land

Front

exurbs

Back

A typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

Front

Harris and Ullman multiple nuclei model

Back

A model of urban development depicting a city where growth occurs around the progressive integration of multiple nodes, not around one central business district

Front

boomburbs

Back

A suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

Front

Primate city

Back

The largest city in a country which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance

Front

Christller's Central Place Theory

Back

An urban model that uses economic processes to explain hierarchical patterns of urban size and location across space.