ap hug kabat Flashcards
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- A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
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edge city
2
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- Areas that are tied together by transportation nodes, like beltways, to avoid traffic congestion.
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b. Galactic City Model
3
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- A ¨super city¨. A high-population city, with the most modern living conditions and technology.
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d. Megalopolis
4
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- The colonization of settlements that are designed to not be clustered, or crowded.
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Sprawl
5
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- An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own.
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squatter settlement
6
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- Large areas of land, that are not inhabited by people, that are left alone for reasons such as parks or farms. These typically surround a city.
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b. Greenbelt
7
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- A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
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e. Zoning ordinance
8
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- A form of discrimination among realistate to prevent minority groups from gaining money to pay for things like rent.
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a. Redlining
9
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- a city that does not have one central area, but instead has several nodes that act as regional centers for economic or residential activity within one larger city.
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a Multiple Nuclei model
10
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- a planning and development approach based on the principles of how cities and towns had been built for the last several centuries: walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity.
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New urbanism
11
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- A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.
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c. Central Business District (CBD)
12
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- It is a modification of the concentric zone model of city development.
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sector model
13
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- a model of north American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
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Peripheral model
14
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- The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated
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CBD
15
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- An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.
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d. Census tract
