Urban Geography 6..2-6.4 AMSCO

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What is the process of people moving, usually from cities to residential areas on the outskirts of cities called?

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Suburbanization

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Leap-frog development is a strategy that involves:

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skipping intermediate steps to achieve rapid progress

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What are rapidly growing communities with a population over 100,000 people and not the largest city in the metro area called?

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Boomburbs

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What are nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities, usually tall office buildings, concentration of retail shops and few houses called?

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Edge cities

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What is the term for the counter-flow of urban residents leaving cities?

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Counterurbanization

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What are prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs called?

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Exurbs

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What happens when suburbanites return to live in the city?

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Reurbanization

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What is a city with a population of more than a million people called?

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Megacity

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What are sometimes called hypercities; continuous urban area with a population greater than 20 million people?

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Metacities

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What is a chain of connected cities called?

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Megalopolis