Unit 6

City with more than 10 million people

• Nucleated

• megacities

• Galactic city model

a city with more than 100,000 residents located within a metropolitan area but that is not the central city and which has maintained a double-digit growth rate in recent years

• Boomburbs

• Megacities

• Mercantile city

Cities that provide goods and services for the surrounding area.

• Central place theory

• Center city

• Councils of government

 A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

• Central Place Theory

• Disamenity sector

• Homer hoyt

noncompetitive market areas; where each individual urban center and its merchants have a sales monopoly

• Rank-size rule

• Complementary regions

• Concertic Zone

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.

• Councils of government

• Complementary regions

• City

The downtown heart of a central city, the Central Business District is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of retail and office activities.

• Situation

• City-state

• Central Business District

an extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities.

• Conurbation

• Exburbs

• Boomsburbs

 A city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit, a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland

• City-state

• Concentric zone

• Edge cities

communities that arise farther out than the suburbs and are typically populated by residents of high socioeconomic status

• Center city

• disamenity sector

• Exurbs