chapter 9 textbook Flashcards
Rank size rule
In a model urban hierarchy , the population of a city or town be be inversely proportional to its rank in the hejrarchy
Primate city
A countries leading city - always disproportionately large as exceptionally expressive if national capacity and feeling
Central place theory
Goal was to predict where central laces in the urban heirarchy would be located
Functional zonation
Division of the city into certain regions due certain purposes
Central city
Describes the urban area that is not a suburban
Suburb
An outline functionally uniform part of urban area, it was often but not always adjacent to the central city
Suburbanization
Is the process by which land that were previously outside of the urban Byron become urbanized, as people and businesses from the city move to the spaces
Galactic city
A complex urban area in which centrality of functions is no longer significant
Griffin ford model
Griffin and ford Found that South American cities blind traditional elements of south American culture with the forces of globalization better reshaping the urban scene, combining radial sectors and concentric zones
Disamenity sector
The very worst part of cities in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs and druglords
Shantytowns
I’m playing developments of crew dwellings in shelters made mostly of scrap wood iron and pieces of cardboard that develop around cities
Zoning laws
Through zoning laws Cities divide up the city and designate the kinds of development aloud in each zone
Blockbusting
Realtor would solicit white residents of the neighbourhood to sell their homes under the guise of the neighbourhood was going downhill because a black person or family had moved in — “white flight”
Gentrification
The rehabilitation of deteriorated houses in low income neighbourhoods
Teardowns
The home is intended for suburban demolition or call teardowns
