Unit 6

Question 1

African City Model

Answer 1

A model of urban development depicting a city with three CBD’s growing outward in a series of concentric rings.

Question 2

Blockbusting

Answer 2

A practice by real-estate agents who stir up concern that black families would soon move into a neighborhood; they would convince white property owners to sell their houses at cheap prices.

Question 3

Brownfields

Answer 3

Abandoned and polluted industrial site in a central city or suburb.

Question 4

Central Place Theory

Answer 4

A theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surroundings.

Question 5

Concentric Zone Model

Answer 5

A model of urban development describing a city growing outward from a CBD in a series of concentric rings.

Question 6

Edge City

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Exurb

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Filtering

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Galactic City Model

Answer 9

A model of urban development depicting a city where economic activity has moved from the CBD towards loose coalitions of other urban areas and suburbs.

Question 10

Greenbelt

Answer 10

A rig of parkland, agricultural land, or other type of open space maintained around an urban area to limit Sprawl.

Question 11

Latin American City Model

Answer 11

A model of urban development depicting a city with a CBD, concentric rings, and sections stricken by poverty.

Question 12

Megacity

Answer 12

A city with a population of 10m+

Question 13

Metacity

Answer 13

A city with a population of 20m+

Question 14

Metropolitan area

Answer 14

A city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city.

Question 15

MUD

Answer 15

Single planned development designed to include multiple uses, such as residential, retail, educational, recreations, industrial and office spaces.

Question 16

Mixed-use zoning

Answer 16

Zoning that permits multiple land uses in the same space or structure

Question 17

Multiple nuclei model

Answer 17

A model of urban development depicting a city where growth occurs around the progressive integration of multiple nucleis, not around one CBD.

Question 18

New Urbanism

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Primate City

Answer 19

The largest city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance.

Question 20

Rank size rule

Answer 20

Explanation of size of cities within a country. 1/2 > 1/3 ___

Question 21

Redlining

Answer 21

Practice by which a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the bass of a neighborhoods’s racial or ethnic makeup

Question 22

Sector model

Answer 22

A model of urban development depicting a city with wedge-shaped sectors and divisions emanating from the CBD, generally a long transit routes.

Question 23

Smart-growth policies

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Southeast Asian city Model

Answer 24

A model of urban development depicting a city oriented around a port and lacking a formal CBD, growing outward in concentric rings and a long multiple nodes.

Question 25

Squatter settlements

Answer 25

An informal housing area beset with overcrowding and poverty that features temporary homes often made of wood or metal craps.

Question 26

Threshold

Answer 26

In Central Place Theory, the number of people needed to support a business.

Question 27

Urban Renewal

Answer 27

The nationwide movement in the 50’s and 60’s when U.S cities were given massive federal grants t tear down and clear out slums as a means of rebuilding their dowtowns.

Question 28

Urban Sprawl

Answer 28

Areas of poorly-planned, low-density development surrounding a city.

Question 29

World Cities

Answer 29

A city that wields political, cultural, and economic influence on a global scale.

Question 30

Zoning

Answer 30

The process of dividing a city or urban area into zones with which only certain land uses are permitted.