Urban sizes Vocab Urban sizes megalopolisconurbation Large super

Urban sizes Vocab

Urban sizes • megalopolis/conurbation • Large super cities in in diverse parts of the world • Metropolitan Area • Settlement area with one or more counties, urban area (50, 000+), operates as a coherent whole • Megacity • Very large cities (10+ million) or more • primate city • Disproportionately (more than twice) largest city, often the capital • world city • Dominant city, strategic control of world economy • gateway city • Links one country or regions and others due to relative location • edge city • Office and retail activities on the edge/border of an urban area

Urban ex/ • megalopolis/conurbation • Boston to Washington, DC • Metropolitan Area • Charlotte and Gboro/WS regions • megacity • Mumbai, Karachi, New Delhi, Shanghai, Moscow, San Paolo • primate city • Bucharest, Romania; London, UK • world city • London, New York, Tokyo, Brussels • gateway city • St. Louis, Mo; Atlanta • edge city • Hanes Mall boulevard area

Urban challenges • slum – Area with poor living and social conditions • squatter settlement – Area in which no one owns or rents the residential structures • ghetto – Section of a city in which a minority group lives • urban heat island – Increased temperatures in an urban area due to increased energy from buildings, roads, lighting, heating, etc…. • suburbanization – Population growth on the edges of large metropolitan areas • commercialization – Transforming an area attractive in terms of economic activity • counterurbanization – Migration of population from cities to smaller towns/rural areas