Ch 9 Vocab Flashcards
Urban
The build of space of the central city and suburbs
Agora
Market that became a commercial activity
Urban morphology
A city’s layouts it’s physical form and structure
Shock city
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
Rank-size rule
The Nth largest city in a region is 1/N the size of the regions largest city’s population
Primate city
A country’s leading city , always disproportionately large and exceptional expressive of national capacity and feeling
Central place theory
Urban centers that provide goods and services to their surrounding rural people or its economic reach collectively referred to as the central places hinterland
Functional zonation
The division of the city into certain regions(Zones) for certain purposes(Functions).
Zone
Is typically preceded by a descriptor that conveys the purpose of that area of the city
Central City
Describes the urban area that is not suburban refers to the oldest city as opposed to the newer suburbs
the core of the city
Suburb
An outlying functionally uniform part of an urban area and is often but not always adjacent to the central city
Urbanization
The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas
Suburbanization
The movements from the central city to the suburbs
Counter urbanization
The movement of people from the urban areas to the rural areas
Megalopolis
Such a massive urban blob of overlapping integrating metropolitan areas whose distinctive boundaries are increasingly becoming difficult to find
Social area analysis
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
Megacity
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
Squatter settlements
The most improverished and unskilled residents live on the periphery of a city
Zoning laws
Areas of the city that are designated for different kinds of development
Ghettoization
Refers to the growth of areas of concentrated poverty
Blockbusting
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
White flight
Movement of whites from the city and adjacent neighborhoods to the outlying suburbs
Racial steering
When real estate agents would intentionally or unintentionally steer people to buy a home in a neighborhood based on their race
Redlining
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
Gentrification
A process where in order urban zones are rediscovered and renovated by people who move back into the inner-city from the suburban fringes
Teardowns
Suburban homes meant for demolition the intention is to replace them with McMansions urban sprawl and new urbanism
Urban sprawl
Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expenses of land, with little concerned for urban planning
Edge city
Self-sufficient urban villages that often develop at key freeway intersections and are part of a larger metropolitan complex
New urbanism
A movement to bring together trends in healthy living sustainable growth and urban development
Spaces of consumption
Media corporations are helping transform urban centers into major entertainment districts where items are consumed
