APHG Unit 6 Urban

Cities, mostly characteristic of the developing world, where high population growth and migration have caused them to explode in population since World War II. Cities with more than 10 million people.

• Megacities

• metacities

• World Cities

• Globalization

Agglomerations of several cities, towns, and suburbs that have expanded so that they coalesce into a single, sprawling urban mass of more than 20 million people.

• metacities
• Urbanization
• Globalization
• rank-size rule

An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

• Urbanization
• urban sprawl
• rank-size rule
• primate city

The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.

• urban sprawl
• World Cities
• primate city
• Bid rent theory

A group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally dominant system of global control of finance and commerce

• World Cities
• Globalization
• Bid rent theory
• Infilling

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

• Globalization
• rank-size rule
• Infilling
• mixed-use development

the country's nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement

• rank-size rule
• primate city
• mixed-use development
• greenbelts

The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

• primate city
• Bid rent theory
• greenbelts
• Slow-growth cities

geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.

• Bid rent theory
• Infilling
• Slow-growth cities
• Squatter Settlement

The process by which population density in an urban centre is increased by building on waste land or underused land.

• Infilling
• mixed-use development
• Squatter Settlement
• urban renewal