Unit 7: Urban
Unit VII: Urban Land Use
Stateframeworks/Common Core Framworks Covered:
E4.1,E5.5,CCS. RH. 9-10. 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
CCS. WHST. 1a,b,c,d,e., 2a,2b, 2d,2e,2f., 4,5,6,7,8,9,10
Unit VII: Urban Land Use
Outline the following chapters:
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
Define Unit VII: Urban Vocabulary Terms (hand written)
Unit VII: Vocabulary
A Vocabulary List for AP Human Geography
Martha Sharma
Retired teacher
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Unit VII. Cities and Urban Land Use—Basic Vocabulary and Concepts
Agglomeration
Barriadas
Bid-rent theory
Blockbusting
CBD (central business district)
Census tract
Centrality
Centralization
Central-place theory
Christaller, Walter
City
Cityscapes
Colonial city
Commercialization
Commuter zone
Concentric zone model
Counterurbanization
Decentralization
Deindustrialization
Early cities
Economic base (basic/nonbasic)
Edge city
Emerging cities
Employment structure
Entrepôt
Ethnic neighborhood
Favela
Female-headed household
Festival landscape
Gateway city
Gender
Gentrification
Ghetto
Globalization
Great cities
High-tech corridors
Hinterland
Hydraulic civilization
Indigenous city
In-filling
Informal sector
Infrastructure
Inner city
Invasion and succession
Lateral commuting
Medieval cities
Megacities
Megalopolis/conurbation
Metropolitan area
Multiple nuclei model
Multiplier effect
Neighborhood
Office park
Peak land value intersection
Planned communities
Postindustrial city
Postmodern urban landscape
Primate city
Racial steering
Rank-size rule
Redlining
Restrictive covenants
Sector model
Segregation
Settlement form (nucleated, dispersed, elongated)
Shopping mall
Site/situation
Slum
Social structure
Specialization
Squatter settlement
Street pattern (grid, dendritic; access, control)
Suburb
Suburbanization
Symbolic landscape
Tenement
Threshold/range
Town
Underclass
Underemployment
Urban growth rate
Urban function
Urban hearth area
Urban heat island
Urban hierarchy
Urban hydrology
Urban morphology
Urbanization
Urbanized population
World city
Zone in transition
Zoning
