![]() ![]() Central Business District (CBD) The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.Įxample: Budapest, Hungary Central City The urban area that is not suburban generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbsĮxample: Suburb A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connecting to the central city. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions (e.g. and Northern Virginia Micropolitan Statistical Area An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city.Įxample: Cleveland Functional Zonation The division of a city into different regions, or zones, (e.g. Range (of goods and services) The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.Įxample: 5 min to Convenience store World/Global Cities A city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic systemĮxample: London, New York Mega Cities A city with a population of greater than 10 million.Įxample: Tokyo Metropolitan Statistical Area In the United States, an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city.Įxample: Atlanta Megalopolis/Conurbation A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.Įxample: Boston, Massachusetts through New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and ending in Washington, D.C. Westchester->NYC Threshold The minimum number of people needed to support a service.Įxample: Only a certain percentage of actually people using service. ![]() ![]() Ives Central Place A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.Ĭentral Place: Midtown, Manhattan Hinterland The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. It is disproportionately larger.Įxample: France Christaller's Central Place Theory A theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. Rank-Size Rule A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest city is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.Įxample: Germany Primate City The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement and is dominant in politics, economics, and culture of the country. Industrial City Cities that were developed hugely as an effect of the Industrial Revolution. ![]()
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