Chapter 9 Flashcards
As early as 1900, real estate agents and developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being overtaken by racial or ethnic neighborhoods
Blockbusting
Mess, cluster
Agglomeration
The downtown or cycles of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are unusually quite high; and transportation systems converge
Central Business District (CBD)
A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations
central place theory
The act of consolidating power under a central control
Centralization
The social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
Decentralization
Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment
Edge city
A city currently without much population but it’s increasing in size at a fast rate
Emerging cities
A trading center, or simply a trading warehouse where merchandise can be improved and exported without paying for import duties, often at a profit
Entrepôt
The pattern of land use within a city, such as residential, commercial, and governmental
Functional zonation
The trend of middle and upper income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods
Gentrification
System of trade or economic exchange used outside state controlled or money based transactions
Informal economy
A practice by banks and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be high risk for housing loans
Redlining
A town or section of town or city where there are many poor people loving in shacks
Shantytown
City or town
Urban
