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Question 1

Annexation

Answer 1

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

Question 2

Census Tract

Answer 2

An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published, in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.

Question 3

Central Business District (CBD)

Answer 3

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.

Question 4

City

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Combined Statistical Area (CSA)

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Concentric Zone Model

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)

Answer 7

In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas.

Question 8

Council of Government

Answer 8

A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States.

Question 9

Density Gradient

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Edge City

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Filtering

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Gentrification

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Greenbelt

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Answer 14

In the United States, 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.

Question 15

Multiple Nuclei Model

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Peripheral Model

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Primary Census Statistical Area (PCSA)

Answer 17

In the United States, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan statistical areas.

Question 18

Public Houseing

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Redlining

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Rush Hour

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Sector Model (Hoyt)

Answer 21

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the CBD.

Question 22

Smart Growth

Answer 22

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

Question 23

Social Area Analysis

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Sprawl

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Squatter Settlement

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Underclass

Answer 26

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