DED Words #13 Flashcards
Central Business District (CBD)
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
Combined Statistical Area
In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns.
Zoning Ordinance
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
Concentric Zone Model
A model created by E.W. Burgess that represents the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
Sector Model
A model created by Homer Hoyt that represents the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors.
Multiple Nuclei Model
A model created by C.D. Harris and E.L. Ullman that represents the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes.
Census Tract
An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the census for which publishes statistics.
Social Area Analysis
Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyle live within an urban area.
Squatter Settlement
An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residence on lands they do not own.
Peripheral Model
A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a ring road.
Urban Area
A dense core of census tracts, densely settled suburbs, and low density land that links the dense suburbs with the core.
Urbanized Area
In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants.
Metropolitan Statistical Area
A region with a relatively high population density at its core.
Urban Cluster
In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants.
Micropolitan Statistical Area
Urban areas in the USA centered on an urban cluster with a population of 10,000 to 50,000.
Core Based Statistical Area
In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
Primary Census Statistical Area
In the United States, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
Megalopolis
A continuous urban complex in the Northeastern United States.
Council of Government
A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in the metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
Annexations
Legally adding land area to a city in the united states.
Sprawl
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
Density Gradient
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.
