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the bringing of people and activities together in one place for greater convenience
agglomeration
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the part of a city's economy that is producing exports
basic sector
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abandoned polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped
brownfields
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an activity in which a large amount of capital is invested per worker
capital-intensive activity
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the traditional core of the city where office buildings and retail shops tend to be concentrated
central business district (CBD)
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a model of the distribution of cities across an isotropic plain
central place theory
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a concentrated non agricultural human settlement
city
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residential clustering by choice
congregation
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two or more contiguous MSAs
consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA)
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the range of goods and services in a city that can be rented or hired temporarily
external economies
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the settlements that make up the outermost ring of expanding metropolitan areas
exurbs
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the occupation and restoration of select urban residential neighborhoods by successful urban white-collar workers
gentrification
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the region to which any city provides services and upon which it draws for its needs
hinterland
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the process of defining a city territory and establishing a government
incorporation
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the economic activities that do not appear in official accounts
informal or underground sector
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those goods and services that a large company can provide for itself
internal economies
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an activity that employs a high ratio of workers to invested capital
labor-intensive activity
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an integrated economic and social unit with a recognized large population nucleus, according to the US census bureau
metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
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the fact that jobs in a city's basic sector multiply jobs in the non basic sector
multiplier affect
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the theory that central city unemployment is caused by a lack of social netowrks
network hypothesis
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the part of a city's economy serving the needs of the city itself
nonbasic sector
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the study of the interaction between political processes and the distributions of all other activities and transformations of the landscape
political geography
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that part of the economy that extracts resources directly from earth, including agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining
primary sector
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a large city concentrating a national population or national political, intellectual, or economic life
primate city
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that part of the economy that transforms raw materials into manufactured goods
secondary sector
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residential clustering as the result of discrimination
segregation
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that part of the economy that services the primary and secondary sectors
service sector
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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
spatial mismatch hypothesis
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working at home at a computer terminal connected to an office
telecommuting
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that part of the economy that services the primary and secondary sector
tertiary sector
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areas within which governments create generous conditions for enterprises to encourage the creation of jobs
urban enterprise zones
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the geographic study of cities
urban geography
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the process of concentrating people in cities
urbanization
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restricting or prescribing the use to which parcels of land may be put
zoning
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