Chapter 13

Question 1

Legally adding land area to a city in United States

Answer 1

Annexation

Question 2

An area delineated by the US Bureau of the census for which statistics are published in urban areas census tracts correspond roughly 2 neighborhoods

Answer 2

Census track

Question 3

The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered

Answer 3

Central business district

Question 4

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent Self governing unit

Answer 4

Central city

Question 5

In the United States two or more contingenous core based statistical areas tied together by commute patterns

Answer 5

Combined statistical area

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Concentric zone model

Question 7

In the United States the collection of all metropolitan statistical areas and Micro Politan statistical areas

Answer 7

Core based statistical area

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Density gradient

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Edge city

Question 10

Model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by beltway or Ring Road

Answer 10

Galactic or peripheral model

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Gentrification

Question 12

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 direct homemade structures

Answer 12

Informal settlement

Question 13

A continuous urban complex in the north eastern United States

Answer 13

Megalopolis 

Question 14

In the United States an urbanized area 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 14

Metropolitan statistical area

Question 15

And urbanized area between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants the county in which it is located and adjacent counties tied to the city

Answer 15

Micro Politan statistical area

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Multiple nuclei model

Question 17

Government owned housing rented to low income people

Answer 17

Public housing

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Rush-hour

Question 19

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors or wedges radiating out of it in the central business district

Answer 19

Sector model

Question 20

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland

Answer 20

Smart growth

Question 21

Statistical analysis used to identify where people of Simo living standards ethnic backgrounds and lifestyle live within an urban area

Answer 21

Social area analysis

Question 22

The development of new housing sites at relatively low density and out locations that are not contingent to the existing built up area

Answer 22

Sprawl

Question 23

Residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the Central City

Answer 23

Suburb

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Underclass

Question 25

Hey dense core of census tracts densely settled suburbs and low density land that links the dance served with the core

Answer 25

Urban area

Question 26

In the United States in urban area with between 2500 and 50000 Inhabitants

Answer 26

Urban cluster

Question 27

In the United States an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants

Answer 27

Urbanized area