Ch. 13 Vocab

Question 1

Legally adding land area to a city in the US

Answer 1

Annexation

Question 2

An area delineated by the US Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts corresponds roughly to neighborhoods

Answer 2

Census tract

Question 3

The area of a cit where retail and office activities are clustered

Answer 3

Central business district (CBD)

Question 4

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit

Answer 4

City

Question 5

In the US, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns

Answer 5

Core based statistical area (CBSA)

Question 6

A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the US

Answer 6

Council of government

Question 7

The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

Answer 7

Density gradient

Question 8

A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area

Answer 8

Edge City

Question 9

A process of change in the use of a house, form single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

Answer 9

Filtering

Question 10

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area

Answer 10

Gentrification

Question 11

A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the spiral of an urban area

Answer 11

Greenbelt

Question 12

In the US, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city

Answer 12

Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)

Question 13

An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the country in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city

Answer 13

Micropolitan statistical area

Question 14

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities

Answer 14

Multiple nuclei model

Question 15

A model of NA urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road

Answer 15

Peripheral model

Question 16

In the US, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the the remaining metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas

Answer 16

Primary census statistical area (PCSA)

Question 17

Housing owned by the government; in the US, it is rented to residents with low incomes, and the rents are set at 30% of the families’ incomes

Answer 17

Public housing

Question 18

A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries

Answer 18

Redlining

Question 19

The four consecutive 15-minute periods i the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic

Answer 19

Rush hour

Question 20

A model of the internal structure of cities in high social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD)

Answer 20

Sector model

Question 21

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland

Answer 21

Smart growth

Question 22

Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and life style live within an urban area

Answer 22

Social area analysis

Question 23

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area

Answer 23

Sprawl

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Squatter settlement

Question 25

A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social

Answer 25

Underclass

Question 26

Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers

Answer 26

Urban renewal

Question 27

In the US, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs

Answer 27

Urbanized area

Question 28

A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community

Answer 28

Zoning ordinance

Question 29

In the US, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns

Answer 29

Combined statistical area (CSA)

Question 30

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings

Answer 30

Concentric zone model