U6 terms

Question 1

Mixed-Use Development (MUD)

Answer 1

a single planned development designed to include multiple uses, such as residential, retail, educational, recreational, industrial, and office spaces

Question 2

Transportation-Oriented Development

Answer 2

the creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use communities centered around or located near a transit station

Question 3

Smart-Growth Policies

Answer 3

policy implemented to create sustainable communities by placing development in convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and environmentally responsible

Question 4

New Urbanism

Answer 4

a school of thought that promotes designing growth to limit the amount of urban sprawl and preserve nature and usable farmland

Question 5

Slow Growth Cities

Answer 5

city where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which the city grows outward

Question 6

Blockbusting

Answer 6

a practice by real restate agents who would stir up concern that Black families would soon move into a neighborhood; the agents would convince White property owners to sell their houses at below-market prices

Question 7

Redlining

Answer 7

practice by which a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhood’s racial or ethnic makeup

Question 8

Filtering

Answer 8

the process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower-income groups

Question 9

Zones of Abandonment

Answer 9

area that has been largely deserted due to lack of jobs, declines in land value, and falling demand

Question 10

Eminent Domain

Answer 10

a government’s right to take over privately owned property for public use or interest

Question 11

Urban Area

Answer 11

a city and its surrounding suburbs

Question 12

Metropolitan Area

Answer 12

a city and surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

Question 13

Urban Sprawl

Answer 13

urban areas expand in an unplanned and uncontrolled way

Question 14

Edge City

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a type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

Question 15

Boomburg

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a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

Question 16

Exurb

Answer 16

a typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

Question 17

Infill

Answer 17

redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

Question 18

Range

Answer 18

in central place theory, the distance that someone is willing to travel for a good or service

Question 19

Threshold

Answer 19

in central place theory, the number of people needed to support a business

Question 20

Megacity

Answer 20

a city with a population of more than 10 million

Question 21

Metacity

Answer 21

a city with a population of more than 20 million