ap human units 5-7

Question 1

Mixed-Use Development (MUD)

Answer 1

provide more than one use or purpose within a shared building or development area

Question 2

Transportation-Oriented Development

Answer 2

integrated urban places designed to bring people, activities, buildings, and public space together

Question 3

Smart-Growth Policies

Answer 3

overall approach of development and conservation strategies that can help protect our health and natural environment and make our communities more attractive, economically stronger, socially diverse, and resilient to climate change

Question 4

New Urbanism

Answer 4

a planning and development approach based on the principles of how cities and towns had been built for the last several centuries

Question 5

Slow Growth Cities

Answer 5

urban communities where the planners have put into place smart growth initiatives to decrease the rate at which the city grows horizontally to avoid the adverse affects of sprawl

Question 6

Blockbusting

Answer 6

the act or practice of inducing the sale of property cheaply by exploiting the owners’ fears of lower prices if racial minorities live in the area

Question 7

Redlining

Answer 7

a discriminatory practice that consists of the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity

Question 8

Filtering

Answer 8

the process by which homes depreciate in quality as they age and tend to be occupied by lower-income households

Question 9

Zones of Abandonment

Answer 9

The lack of jobs, big declines in land value and falling demand can cause properties to become abandoned, extending even to entire neighborhoods

Question 10

Eminent Domain

Answer 10

The power of government to acquire land from private landowners and convert it to public use or to a use with public benefit

Question 11

Urban Area

Answer 11

a continuously built-up area with a population of 50,000 or more

Question 12

Metropolitan Area

Answer 12

a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that core

Question 13

Urban Sprawl

Answer 13

the unplanned rapid expansion of the geographic extent of cities and towns

Question 14

Edge City

Answer 14

a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional downtown or central business district, in what had previously been a suburban residential or rural area

Question 15

Boomburg

Answer 15

a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area

Question 16

Exurb

Answer 16

a region or settlement that lies outside a city and usually beyond its suburbs and that often is inhabited chiefly by well-to-do families

Question 17

Infill

Answer 17

the rededication of land in an urban environment, usually open-space, to new construction

Question 18

Range

Answer 18

the max distance people are willing to travel to use a service

Question 19

Threshold

Answer 19

comprises the smallest market area necessary for the goods and services to be economically viable

Question 20

Megacity

Answer 20

a very large city, typically with a population of more than 10 million people

Question 21

Metacity

Answer 21

any urban area or conurbation with more than 20 million people