UNIT 6 - CH 16

Question 1

African City Model (De Blij Model)

Answer 1

Model that suggests that African cities have more than one CBD, which is a remanence of colonialism

Question 2

Alien commercial zone

Answer 2

Dominated by ethnic Chinese merchants whose residences are attached to their places of business; seen in the SE Asia City Model

Question 3

Banlieues

Answer 3

French term - refers to a suburb of a large city

Question 4

Bid rent theory

Answer 4

Geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases

Question 5

Census blocks

Answer 5

Generally census blocks are small in area but may encompass hundreds of square miles in remote areas. Census blocks nest within all other tabulated census geographic entities and are the basis for all tabulated data

Question 6

Census tracts (CT)

Answer 6

Urban areas are divided into census tracts - which are contiguous geographic region that function as the building block of the census

Question 7

Central Business District (CBD)

Answer 7

The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge

Question 8

Colonial CBD (African cities)

Answer 8

Has broad, straight avenues and large homes, parks, and administrative centers- has grid pattern for order and control

Question 9

Commercial zone

Answer 9

Any part of a city or town in which the primary land use us commercial activities (shops, offices, and so on)

Question 10

Concentric-zone Model (Burgess)

Answer 10

A structural model of the Amerfican central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center

Question 11

Density (housing)

Answer 11

A measurement of housing units in a given area

Question 12

Disamenity Zones

Answer 12

High-poverty urban areas in disadvantages locations containing sleep slopes, flood-prone ground, rail lines, landfills or industry

Question 13

Galactic City Model (peripheral model)

Answer 13

Explains cities that have a traditional downtown and loose conditions of other urban areas. This model explains what occurred in metropolitan areas that became decentralized and formed suburbs after automobile use became more widespread. The model includes newer business centers, internal edge cities, external edge cities located around the transportation routes, edge city complexes for back offices and research and development centers and specialized sub centers for education, entertainment, sports, and convention centers

Question 14

Infill development

Answer 14

Building and developing in vacant areas of high-density urban centers. Infill development can reduce traffic congestion, save open space, and create more livable communities

Question 15

Informal satellite townships

Answer 15

Squatter settlements in the African city model

Question 16

Infrastructure

Answer 16

Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools

Question 17

Latin American City Model (Griffin-Ford Model)

Answer 17

Combines elements of Latin American Culture and. Globalizing by combining radical sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of the worst housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors

Question 18

Mall

Answer 18

On Latin American City Model - where wealthy residents live in the blocks adjoining both sides of the spine, which typically ends at what might be called an edge city

Question 19

Multiple-nuclei model

Answer 19

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes and activities

Question 20

Municipal

Answer 20

Relating to a city, town, village, or the like with local self-government

Question 21

Municipality

Answer 21

A city, town, etc. having its own incorporated government for local affairs

Question 22

Nodes

Answer 22

Points of function points of a functional region

Question 23

Perferico

Answer 23

In Latin city model - radial road that likely circles the city, connecting the mall with an industrial park or parks

Question 24

Port zone

Answer 24

It is export orientated and similar to the CBD in North American cities

Question 25

Residential zones

Answer 25

Zones where people live

Question 26

Sector model (Hoyt)

Answer 26

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD)

Question 27

Southeast Asian City Model

Answer 27

Terry (T.G.) McGee developed a model showing similar land use patterns among medium sized cities of Southeast Asia. Its focal point is the old colonial port zone. The model also does not fins any CBD in Asia, but rather he found elements of the CBD present as separate clusters surrounding the port zone

Question 28

Spine

Answer 28

High-end commercial sector in the Latin American city model

Question 29

Squatter settlement/shantytowns

Answer 29

Informal housing areas that are full of poverty and overcrowding

Question 30

Traditional CBD (African cities)

Answer 30

The CBD that existed before European colonization, has small shops clustered around twisting, narrow streets

Question 31

Zone in transition

Answer 31

Name given to the second ring of concentric zone model, which surrounds the CBD, in the concentric zone model. This place typically has mixed land use, moving from industry - factory production and light manufacturing to older densely populated and typically declining neighborhoods

Question 32

Zone of In Situ Accretion

Answer 32

A transitional area for Latin American cities that is between the zone of maturity and the zone of peripheral squatter settlements - has mixed quality housing, but renovations and improvements associated with gentrification can offer

Question 33

Zone of Intensive Market Gardening (Southeast Asia Model Zone)

Answer 33

Zone outside the squatter settlements with intensive market gardening

Question 34

Zone of maturity

Answer 34

Area close to the middle of the concentric zone model where middle class families reside, they generally maintain their homes well enough to keep them from deteriorating

Question 35

Zoning

Answer 35

The practice of classifying areas fro different types of development and land use