Chapter 13 Key Terms Flashcards
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
Central Business District (CBD)
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.
Census Tract
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
Concentric Zone Model
A process of change in the use of a house, from a single-family owner occupancy to abandonment.
Filtering
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class-owner-occupied area.
Gentrification
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.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city.
Micropolitan Statistical Area
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
Multiple Nuclei Model
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.
Sector Model
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
Smart Growth
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
Sprawl
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.
Squatter Settlement
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.
Underclass
In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs.
Urbanized Area
