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| Globalization | due to this, the scale of the world is shrinking |
| Primary Sector | The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry. |
| Secondary Sector | The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials. |
| Tertiary Sector | The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment. |
| Hinterland | literally “country behind”; refers to the surrounding area served by an urban center (the heartland). |
| Counter Urbanization | net migration from urban to rural areas in mdcs. |
| Squatter Settlements | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
| Central Business District (CBD) | the downtown heart of a central city, the Central Business District is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings |
| Gentrification | trend of mid to high-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture, but also replacing low-income population – changing the social character of certain neighborhoods. |
| Ghetto | inner cities that become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out of the suburbs (white flight) and immigrants and poorer people vie for scarce jobs and resources. |
