Unit 6

Question 1

Blockbusting

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Boomburbs

Answer 2

Rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character, even as it reaches populations, more typical of a large city.

Question 3

Brownfield’s

Answer 3

Abandon polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped.
Brown = polluted
Field = Land

Question 4

Census tracts

Answer 4

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)

Question 5

Central business district

Answer 5

The area of the city where retail an office activities are clustered.
The middle

Question 6

Conurbation

Answer 6

A continuous extended urban area formed by the growing together at several formally, separate expanding cities.
Continue of an urban area into cities

Question 7

Decentralization

Answer 7

Business and industry locating outside of the central city

Moving away from the central city

Question 8

De facto segregation

Answer 8

Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions, or personal choice.

Question 9

Density gradient

Answer 9

The change in density in an urban area from the center to periphery.

Question 10

Disamenity zones

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Edge city

Answer 11

A large node of office in retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

Question 12

Exurbs

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Filtering

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Gentrification

Answer 14

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly, low income, renter occupied area to a predominantly middle class owner occupied area.

Question 15

Greenbelt

Answer 15

A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
Open area

Question 16

Greenfield

Answer 16

An approach in which a project lacks constraints imposed by prior development.

Question 17

Hinterland

Answer 17

The market area surrounding it, which urban centers, which that urban center service.

Question 18

Inclusionary zoning

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

Infilling

Answer 19

The process by which population density in an urban center is increased by building on waste land or under used land.

Question 20

Megacities

Answer 20

Cities with more than 10 million people

Question 21

Metacities

Answer 21

A term used to describe cities that have 20 million or more people

Question 22

Metropolitan area

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Mixed use developments (MXDs)

Answer 23

Combine several different shopping center types in one complex, including shopping Center, office, towers, hotels, etc.
Lots of uses for one building

Question 24

New urbanism

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Placelessness

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Primate city

Answer 26

A city that rinks in a nation in terms of population in economy
Large population, so it gets a rank

Question 27

Primate city rule

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

Range

Answer 28

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use service.

Question 29

Rank size rule

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Redlining

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

Site

Answer 31

Location

Question 32

Situation

Answer 32

The location of a place relative to another place or its surrounding features.

Question 33

Slow growth city

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Smart growth policy

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Sprawl

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Squatter settlements

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Suburbanization

Answer 37

The process of population movement from within towns and cities to a rural urban fringe.
Becoming urbanized

Question 38

Threshold

Answer 38

the minimum number of people needed to support service

Question 39

Walkability

Answer 39

The overall level of comfort, access, enjoyment, and connectivity of an area that facilitates walking

Question 40

World cities

Answer 40

a group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally, dominant system of global control of finance and commerce

Question 41

Zones of abandonment

Answer 41

Areas that no longer have value to investors in abandoned by businesses.
Display up of the city doesn’t have value
Busines is abandoned

Question 42

Zoning

Answer 42

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