Ch. 13 Vocab Flashcards
Legally adding land area to a city in the US
Annexation
An area delineated by the US Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts corresponds roughly to neighborhoods
Census tract
The area of a cit where retail and office activities are clustered
Central business district (CBD)
An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit
City
In the US, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns
Core based statistical area (CBSA)
A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the US
Council of government
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery
Density gradient
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area
Edge City
A process of change in the use of a house, form single-family owner occupancy to abandonment
Filtering
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area
Gentrification
A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the spiral of an urban area
Greenbelt
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
Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)
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
Micropolitan statistical area
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities
Multiple nuclei model
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
Peripheral model
In the US, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the the remaining metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas
Primary census statistical area (PCSA)
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
Public housing
A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries
Redlining
The four consecutive 15-minute periods i the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic
Rush hour
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)
Sector model
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
Smart growth
Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and life style live within an urban area
Social area analysis
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area
Sprawl
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
Squatter settlement
