Unit 6 Cities

Cities or towns with corporate status within a metropolitan area, having their own local government

Deal with the placement of land use activities, infrastructure, crime, and settlement growth within a metropolitan area

Forests or farmland in the middle of a metropolitan area are converted into new housing and business development

Movement of businesses and population from the central city to the suburbs

A city with over 20 million people with a large sprawling metropolitan area.

Wealthy residential neighborhood that is found in a rural area far from the central city.

City in the suburb that has a population over 100,000 and all the services of a central city but is decentralized.

These are govt. designated areas in cities that each have about 5000 people, they often times correspond to neighborhoods

Term used to explain an urban settlement acting as an independent, self-governing unit. In common speech it is used to express both the downtown area as well as suburbs surrounding it

Area of urban land that contains more than 50,000 people, a central city, suburbs and the countries where most of the people work in and/or visit the central city for many services.

Idea that the amount of interactions two cities have is directly related to how large in terms of population they are (because of size New York and Los Angeles, despite distance, interact more than small cities that are close to each other)

Any urban settlement with over 10 million people, these are growing in less developed countries because of industrialization leading to social and politically challenge as these cities cannot sustain this growth

the downtown area with many skyscrapers and companies but few permanent residents

city grows outwards from the central area (CBD in middle, then zone transition between business and residential, then zone of workers' homes, then zone of residences, then higher income commuter's zone)

Harris and Ullman will say that cities are very complex, creating many centers with which different types of activities revolve.