MTRO 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fallacy, Spinach, Immigration
23 Feb 2017
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City: an incorporated municipality, as defined by local law: legal definition. City: a large, permanent human settlement: social definition, you cross a street, but it still feels like the same (cid:272)ity. You"re i(cid:374) the sa(cid:373)e regio(cid:374: people use other cities in the region to describe where the city actually is located, (cid:862)the ge(cid:374)eralized ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) area(cid:863) Urban: (in general) of, or pertaining to a city or town in different places, there are different definitions of what urban is. Is it a capital, centers of political control, a city of control. Economic characteristics: are the people here farmers? (then not urban area) Functional nature: a place is urban if it has urban amenities such as: electricity, plumbing, etc. If you reach a certain population threshold, you have a city. Population density: how many people are there per unit area. Census designations (large to small) breaking it down by regions: nation, state, county, census tract roughly the size of a neighborhood.
