Geog ch 10

the bringing of people and activities together in one place for greater convenience

the part of a city's economy that is producing exports

abandoned polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped

an activity in which a large amount of capital is invested per worker

the traditional core of the city where office buildings and retail shops tend to be concentrated

a model of the distribution of cities across an isotropic plain

a concentrated non agricultural human settlement

residential clustering by choice

two or more contiguous MSAs

the range of goods and services in a city that can be rented or hired temporarily

the settlements that make up the outermost ring of expanding metropolitan areas

the occupation and restoration of select urban residential neighborhoods by successful urban white-collar workers

the region to which any city provides services and upon which it draws for its needs

the process of defining a city territory and establishing a government

the economic activities that do not appear in official accounts

those goods and services that a large company can provide for itself

an activity that employs a high ratio of workers to invested capital

an integrated economic and social unit with a recognized large population nucleus, according to the US census bureau

the fact that jobs in a city's basic sector multiply jobs in the non basic sector

the theory that central city unemployment is caused by a lack of social netowrks

the part of a city's economy serving the needs of the city itself

the study of the interaction between political processes and the distributions of all other activities and transformations of the landscape

that part of the economy that extracts resources directly from earth, including agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining

a large city concentrating a national population or national political, intellectual, or economic life

that part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods

residential clustering as the result of discrimination

that part of the economy that services the primary and secondary sectors

the hypothesis that central city unemployment is caused by the removal of job opportunity to the suburbs and the concentration of the poor in the central city

working at home at a computer terminal connected to an office

that part of the economy that services the primary and secondary sector

areas within which governments create generous conditions for enterprises to encourage the creation of jobs

the geographic study of cities

the process of concentrating people in cities

restricting or prescribing the use to which parcels of land may be put