Unit 6: Cities & Urban Land Use
This term refers to the increasing percentage of people living in urban areas.
What is urbanization?
This economic sector includes jobs like farming, fishing, and mining.
What is the primary sector?
This model places the Central Business District (CBD) at the center with zones radiating outward.
What is the concentric zone model?
This index measures a country's development based on income, education, and life expectancy.
What is the Human Development Index (HDI)?
This process involves the rehabilitation of housing in older neighborhoods by middle-class residents.
What is gentrification?
This theory states that industries locate where transportation costs of inputs and outputs are minimized.
What is Weber’s Least Cost Theory?
This law explains how the number and size of settlements are distributed in a region.
What is the rank-size rule?
This global system divides the world into core, semi-periphery, and periphery countries.
What is Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory?
This term refers to a very large urban region formed when multiple metropolitan areas grow into one another.
What is a megalopolis?
This is the movement of economic activities from developed to developing countries, often to reduce labor costs.
What is outsourcing?