Unit 6 Gradesavers

Describes the characteristics at the immediate location- for example, physical features, climate, labor force, and human structures

The location of a place relative to is surroundings and connectivity to other places

The process of developing towns and cities that is an ongoing process that does not end once a city is formed

Involves the process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.

The rapid expansion of the spatial extent of a city and occurs for numerous reasons: growth of suburbs, lower land costs in suburbs, lower density single family housing, weak planning laws, and the continuing growth of car culture

A demographic and social process when people move from urban areas to rural areas

Nodes of economic activity that developed in the periphery of large cities

The prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

aka boomburgs, rapidly growing communities that have a total population of over 100,000 people, and are not the largest city in the metro area

Cities that have a population of more than 10 million people