Ch 9 Vocab

Question 1

Urban

Answer 1

The build of space of the central city and suburbs

Question 2

Agora

Answer 2

Market that became a commercial activity

Question 3

Urban morphology

Answer 3

A city’s layouts it’s physical form and structure

Question 4

Shock city

Answer 4

During the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, the American manufacturing City grew rapidly, often with inadequate planning and rapid immigration leading to the development of slums and ghettoes

Question 5

Rank-size rule

Answer 5

The Nth largest city in a region is 1/N the size of the regions largest city’s population

Question 6

Primate city

Answer 6

A country’s leading city , always disproportionately large and exceptional expressive of national capacity and feeling

Question 7

Central place theory

Answer 7

Urban centers that provide goods and services to their surrounding rural people or its economic reach collectively referred to as the central places hinterland

Question 8

Functional zonation

Answer 8

The division of the city into certain regions(Zones) for certain purposes(Functions).

Question 9

Zone

Answer 9

Is typically preceded by a descriptor that conveys the purpose of that area of the city

Question 10

Central City

Answer 10

Describes the urban area that is not suburban refers to the oldest city as opposed to the newer suburbs

the core of the city

Question 11

Suburb

Answer 11

An outlying functionally uniform part of an urban area and is often but not always adjacent to the central city

Question 12

Urbanization

Answer 12

The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas

Question 13

Suburbanization

Answer 13

The movements from the central city to the suburbs

Question 14

Counter urbanization

Answer 14

The movement of people from the urban areas to the rural areas

Question 15

Megalopolis

Answer 15

Such a massive urban blob of overlapping integrating metropolitan areas whose distinctive boundaries are increasingly becoming difficult to find

Question 16

Social area analysis

Answer 16

Social scientist compare the distribution of characteristics creating an overall picture of where various types of people tend to live

this kind of study is known as social area analysis

Question 17

Megacity

Answer 17

Primate cities in developing countries are called mega city when the city has a large population a vast territorial extent

Rapid migration
interregional migration and a strained in adequate infrastructure

Question 18

Squatter settlements

Answer 18

The most improverished and unskilled residents live on the periphery of a city

Question 19

Zoning laws

Answer 19

Areas of the city that are designated for different kinds of development

Question 20

Ghettoization

Answer 20

Refers to the growth of areas of concentrated poverty

Question 21

Blockbusting

Answer 21

When real estate agents and developers used racism to bust up a block by bringing in a minority family into a predominately White neighborhood and then profiting from all of the real estate turnover that followed

Question 22

White flight

Answer 22

Movement of whites from the city and adjacent neighborhoods to the outlying suburbs

Question 23

Racial steering

Answer 23

When real estate agents would intentionally or unintentionally steer people to buy a home in a neighborhood based on their race

Question 24

Redlining

Answer 24

When banks would refuse to give loans to certain minority-occupied neighborhoods that were redlined a practice with furthered entrenched the spaces in urban poverty

this is illegal

Question 25

Gentrification

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A process where in order urban zones are rediscovered and renovated by people who move back into the inner-city from the suburban fringes

Question 26

Teardowns

Answer 26

Suburban homes meant for demolition the intention is to replace them with McMansions urban sprawl and new urbanism

Question 27

Urban sprawl

Answer 27

Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expenses of land, with little concerned for urban planning

Question 28

Edge city

Answer 28

Self-sufficient urban villages that often develop at key freeway intersections and are part of a larger metropolitan complex

Question 29

New urbanism

Answer 29

A movement to bring together trends in healthy living sustainable growth and urban development

Question 30

Spaces of consumption

Answer 30

Media corporations are helping transform urban centers into major entertainment districts where items are consumed