Unit 6 Essential Vocabulary

An absolute location of a place on Earth

• situation

• site

• vernacular region

• topography

• urban hearth

The relative location of a place in reference to its surrounding features, or its regional position with reference to other places

• site

• absolute location

• functional region

• situation

• cartogram

A set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times

• brownfield remediation

• edge cities

• megacities

• infrastructure

• redevelopment

The movement of people from urban cores areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city

• suburbanization

• urbanization

• concentric zones

• bid-rent theory

• infilling

The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner

• suburbanization

• urbanization

• infilling

• sprawl

• urban hierarchy

In an urban context, to move business operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs

• exurbs

• decentralization

• boomburbs

• megacities

• urbanization

A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city's traditional downtown or central business district

• suburbs

• exurbs

• boomburbs

• edge city

• megacity

A place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government

• edge city

• exurb

• hamlet

• city

• boomburb

The building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on vacant or underused parcels in already-developed areas

• urbanization

• suburbanization

• infilling

• smart-growth

• infrastructure

A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families

• exurbs

• central business district

• suburbs

• boomburbs

• edge cities