1. Communities:
*Teach us to live and work together.
Communicate-share information
with others. Communities makes it
easy to communicate.
Ways to communicate:
Phone, conversation, radio, telegraph,
T.V, newspaper

2. Entertainment:
Recreational sports is an example.
Services:
Fire Police
School Water/sewer

3. Communities:
Rural-countryside
A. Small town- less than 2500
B. Suburb- town, village, community
on outskirts of city.
Urban- city
* More than 2500
Three types of urban areas.

4. 3 types of Urban areas:
Metropolis-city and surrounding
towns and suburbs seem to be
connected no line to divide them.
Metropolitan-big city and its
surrounding towns and suburbs.
3. Megalopolis- giant urban area.

5. COUNTY
Tax: administration, police
construction, maintenance,
roads/bridges, public health,
parks, libraries, education
Board of Commissioners-appt.
county manager.

6. CITY:
Municipality-city with its own
government.
Tax-police, license for business,
streets, traffic control, water,
sewer, etc….

7. 3 types of City government:
Council-Mayor -elect mayor and
elect council.
2. Council-Manager-elect council and
they select city manager.
3.Commissioner-elect commissioners
each as department heads.