Chapter 6

Question 1

Suburbs

Answer 1

areas on the periphery of cities, traditionally considered to contain primarily low-density residential development

Question 2

Industrial Suburbs

Answer 2

developments on the metropolitan periphery anchored by manufacturing or other industrial facilities, typically including worker housing as well

Question 3

Edge City

Answer 3

Joel Garreau’s term for clusters of dense commercial and residential land use located at the urban periphery

Question 4

Technoburb

Answer 4

Robert Fishman’s term for areas on the urban periphery that have developed their own socioeconomic viability

Question 5

Sprawl

Answer 5

the extensive growth and spread of people and institutions across metropolitan areas

Question 6

Walking Cities

Answer 6

the dense, compact forms that cities took before the wide adoption of powered transportation technologies

Question 7

Over-Built Suburbs

Answer 7

areas outside cities where property owners have constructed their own dwellings

Question 8

Street Car Suburbs

Answer 8

Samuel Bass Warner, term for communities developed as a result of streetcar, tram, or light rail lines

Question 9

Urban Limit Line

Answer 9

a planning device that aims to curtail sprawl by designating boundaries between developed and undeveloped, or rural areas

Question 10

Redlining

Answer 10

the systematic denial of mortgages and other forms of lending in minority communities

Question 11

Restrictive Covenants

Answer 11

agreements prohibiting the sale of property to members of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities

Question 12

Common Interest Development

Answer 12

a residential community that uses fees levied on homeowners to fund privately held infrastructure and amenities

Question 13

First Ring Suburbs

Answer 13

the older suburbs of metropolitan areas, such suburbs have shown some evidence of decline in population and housing stock, the same kind of decline that has taken place in central areas of the metropolis