Terms
What is the process of a place becoming more urban?
Urbanization
What is the area called with a large population city center, its adjacent communities, and is characterized by significant economic and social integration?
Metropolitan Area
Urban explosion
The study of ecosystems that include humans living in cities and urbanizing landscapes
Urban ecology
This area of the United States holds the greatest estimated population for 2025 according to the Regional Plan Association
Great Lakes
What are the most urbanized regions in the world today?
The Americas
What is the Worlds largest Megacity?
Tokyo
Communities that exist outside the ring of suburbs and are typically populated by even weather families who want more space and have the resources to lengthen their commute.
Exurbs
Sociology of Space
What was the city with the highest population in 1790?
New York City
What is it called when residents and businesses leave the city center?
Decentralization
Megacity
When city-center population growth began to slow and then ultimately decreased
Urban implosion
Sociological study of built environments and the societal role of the architect
Sociology of Architecture
What was the #10 city based on population in 2017?
San Jose, CA
This type of change continues to grow as more people move into cities and surrounding areas.
Population changes
A continuous urban location or two or more intermingled metropolitan areas
Megaregion
Used to describe different "zones" and sees the city as a series of circular areas.
Concentric zone model
Explores how particular landscapes interact with and shape people's behavior, and in return how people interact with and shape those landscapes.
Behavioral geography
While through time Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island have increased in population, this borough has decreased population:
Manhattan
Population shift from central urban areas into suburbs
Suburbanization
A city that occupies significant position in the global economic system
Global City
This person coined the term "global city"
Saskia Sassen
Branch of human geography concerned with various aspects of cities, with an emphasis on location and space and study the spatial processes and create patterns observed in urban areas.
Urban geography
Which of these is not considered a megaregion according to America2050: Piedmont Atlantic, Texas Triangle, Florida, and North Dakota Circle
North Dakota Circle