The idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.
Rank-Size Rule
100
A series of links connecting the many places of production and distribution of an item that is exchanged on the world market.
Commodity Chain
100
Also known as slash and burn agriculture. People clear forests of vegetation by cutting and burning.
Shifting Cultivation
100
An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.
Hinterland
100
Refers to the social and psychological effects of living in a world in which the movement of goods and information has increased rapidly.
Time-Space Compression
200
A country's largest city - ranking atop the urban hierarchy - most expressive of the nations culture.
Primate City
200
The encroachment of desert conditions on moister zones along the desert margins.
Desertification
200
Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption.
Subsistence Agriculture
200
Attempt to explain the locational pattern of an economic activity and the manner in which its producing areas are interrelated.
Location Theory
200
The businesses that provide the vast majority of goods and services that support the agriculture industry.
Agribusiness
300
A design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reform that will create walkable neighborhoods.
New Urbanism
300
Terms used to describe the zones in northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market.
Maquiladoras
300
A model that explains the location of agricultural activities in a commercial, profit-making economy. Allocates farming activities into rings surrounding a central market city.
Von Thunen Model
300
The effects of distance on the interaction, generally the greater the distance the less interaction
Distance Decay
300
Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced engineering methods.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
400
The rehabilitation of of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner city residents.
Gentrification
400
A program that provides small loans to poor people, especially women, to encourage development of small businesses.
Microcredit Programs
400
Economic activity concerned with the direct extraction of natural resources from the environment.
Primary Economic Activity
400
The process through which something is given monetary value.
Commodification
400
Region of great cities located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers - the first urban hearth - dating to 3500 BCE.
Mesopotamia
500
Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains where places should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another.
Central Place Theory
500
Theory originated by Immanuel Wallerstein and has a three-tier structure, proposing social change in the developing world, which is linked to the economic activities of the developed world.
World-Systems Theory
500
Economic activity associated with the provision of services - such as transportation and banking.
Tertiary Economic Activity
500
Ownership of the same firm of a number of companies that exist at the same point on the commodity chain.
Horizontal Integration
500
The total value of all goods and services produced within a country during a given year.