Chapter 13

Question 1

Annexation

Answer 1

Legally adding land area to a city in the US.

Question 2

Central Business District

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Census Tract

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Core Based Statistical Area

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Combined statistical area

Answer 5

In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas ties 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

Edge city

Answer 7

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

Question 9

Greenbelt

Answer 9

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

Question 11

Density Gradient

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Metropolitan Statistical Area

Answer 12

In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, an adjacent counties meeting one of the several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city.

Question 14

Peripheral Model

Answer 14

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 15

Filtering

Answer 15

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

Question 17

Gentrification

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Smart Growth

Answer 18

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

Question 19

Sprawl

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Urbanized Area

Answer 20

In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs.

Question 23

Zoning Ordinance

Answer 23

A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.

Question 24

Public Housing

Answer 24

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 25

Multiple Nuclei Model

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Redlining

Answer 26

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

Question 31

Sector Model

Answer 31

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 central business district.

Question 32

Urban Renewal

Answer 32

Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.

Question 33

Squatter settlement

Answer 33

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 34

Underclass

Answer 34

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.