Unit 6 Flashcards
Blockbusting
The process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their house at low prices, because of fear, that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood.
Boomburbs
Rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character, even as it reaches populations, more typical of a large city.
Brownfield’s
Abandon polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped.
Brown = polluted
Field = Land
Census tracts
A census, tract, census area, or census district is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census, census tracts, correspond roughly to neighborhoods.
An area to take pollution count (neighborhoods)
Central business district
The area of the city where retail an office activities are clustered.
The middle
Conurbation
A continuous extended urban area formed by the growing together at several formally, separate expanding cities.
Continue of an urban area into cities
Decentralization
Business and industry locating outside of the central city
Moving away from the central city
De facto segregation
Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions, or personal choice.
Density gradient
The change in density in an urban area from the center to periphery.
Disamenity zones
A high poverty urban area in a disadvantage location containing steep slopes. A part of Latin America city model, often includes squatter settlements.
Disadvantage location
Poverty
Squatter settlements
Edge city
A large node of office in retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
Exurbs
Communities that arise farther out than the suburbs, and are typically polluted by residence of high Socio economic status.
Further than suburbs with high population
Filtering
The process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to low income groups.
House income changes
One house may have seemed good when the rich people bought it but se time went on it was not considered good and was passed down do the poor people
Gentrification
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly, low income, renter occupied area to a predominantly middle class owner occupied area.
Greenbelt
A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
Open area
Greenfield
An approach in which a project lacks constraints imposed by prior development.
Hinterland
The market area surrounding it, which urban centers, which that urban center service.
Inclusionary zoning
Law that creates affordable housing by offering incentives for developers to set aside, a minimum percentage of new housing construction to be allocated for low income, renters or buyers.
Law that creates a percentage for construction for low income renters.
Infilling
The process by which population density in an urban center is increased by building on waste land or under used land.
Megacities
Cities with more than 10 million people
Metacities
A term used to describe cities that have 20 million or more people
Metropolitan area
A major population in Center made up of a large city and the smaller suburbs and towns that surrounded it.
Large center surrounded by smaller suburbs.
Mixed use developments (MXDs)
Combine several different shopping center types in one complex, including shopping Center, office, towers, hotels, etc.
Lots of uses for one building
New urbanism
A movement in urban planning to promote mixed commercial and residential development and pedestrian, friendly community oriented cities. New urbanism is a reaction to sprawling, automobile center cities of the mid-20th century.
Planning to make cities more smartly developed.
Placelessness
Define radiographer, Edward Relph as the loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks the next.
Loss of places in cultural landscape
Primate city
A city that rinks in a nation in terms of population in economy
Large population, so it gets a rank
Primate city rule
A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlements has more than twice as many people as the second raking settlement.
The pattern the largest settlements have twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
Range
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use service.
Rank size rule
Explanation of size of cities within a country states, the second largest city will be 1/2 the size of the largest city, the third largest will be 1/3 of the size of the largest cities and so on.
Cities will get smaller within a country
Redlining
A process by which banks, draw lines on a map, and refused to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
Lines on a map from banks, that refused to lend money to help.
Site
Location
Situation
The location of a place relative to another place or its surrounding features.
Slow growth city
Urban communities were the planners have put into place smart growth initiatives, to decrease the rate, at which the city grows horizontally to avoid the adverse effects of sprawl.
Decrease population with smart growth initiative to avoid the effects of sprawl.
Smart growth policy
An approach to development that encourages a mix of building types and uses diverse housing and transportation options.
Growth into more diverse housing and transportation
Sprawl
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density, and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built up area.
Housing. That does not affect the structures
Too many houses
Squatter settlements
An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land, they do not own or rent, erect, homemade structures
Small rundown homes right next to a city
Suburbanization
The process of population movement from within towns and cities to a rural urban fringe.
Becoming urbanized
Threshold
the minimum number of people needed to support service
Walkability
The overall level of comfort, access, enjoyment, and connectivity of an area that facilitates walking
World cities
a group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally, dominant system of global control of finance and commerce
Zones of abandonment
Areas that no longer have value to investors in abandoned by businesses.
Display up of the city doesn’t have value
Busines is abandoned
Zoning
The process of dividing a city or urban area into areas with which only certain land uses are permitted.
Dividing a city into different zones
