Chapter 13 Flashcards
The place in the city where all offices, businesses, and other tertiary activities happen.
Central business district. CBD
Typically, what kind of services are benefited in a CBD?
Office stores, retail, and shops.
This theory is where as you get more towards the CBD, the property price rises.
Bid Rent Theory
What is the Concentric Zone model?
A model of city development where the city grow out in series of rings.
List the 5 zones of the concentric zone model.
- CBD
- Zone of transition
- Zone of independent worker homes
- Zone of better residences
- Commuter’s zone.
As it grows out, the income of the people increases.
Describe the sector model
A model where cities contains sector of individual zones, and they grow outwards in a wedge shape.
Describe the multiple nuclei model
A city that has more than one center in which tertiary activities revolve on.
Fitting certain number of people within a neighborhood boundary
Census Tract
The act of comparing where various types of people live
Social Area Analyses
Why do the poor in Europe tend to live in suburbs?
During the industrial rev, factories are clustered outside of cities.
Forced occupation of houses by low income people that used to contain high income people.
Filtering
Drawing boundaries so houses within the boundary cannot receive rent.
Redlining
Relocation of old structures and making room to build never ones.
Urban Renewal
Housing reserved only for the poor
Public Housing
When the middle class goes into a city and renovate the poor areas, and kicking the residences out.
Gentrification
People in the city that are undergoing severe financial problems.
Underclass
What is the main cause of homelessness?
Cannot afford housing.
The act of legally adding land to a city
annexation
These are large, densely populated areas that have a local government and a recognized border
City
Small areas in the city that is examined in the Census
Micropolitan statistical area
This area in the census contains 574 MSAs.
Core Based statistical areas.
Agencies compiled from various governments from local regions
Council of government.
When a series of cities are close together that they form a band of cities.
Megalopolis
Describe the periphery model
An inner city surrounded by suburban housing, and a “ring road” circling around the city.
Self sufficient areas that developed along the highways around the city.
Scumburg would be an example.
Edge Cities
What are the push/pull factors of suburbanization?
Push: Crime, Congestion, Traffic
Pull: Space, New housing, Privacy
Laws that prohibit low income housing
Restrictive convents
Laws that limit the permitted uses of land and density of development. Also causes segregation
Zoning Ordinances.
Boundaries that stop cities from developing any further.
Greenbelt
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and to preserve farmland. Also, making land to have multiple purposes.
Smart growth.
