UNIT 6 - CH 16 Flashcards
African City Model (De Blij Model)
Model that suggests that African cities have more than one CBD, which is a remanence of colonialism
Alien commercial zone
Dominated by ethnic Chinese merchants whose residences are attached to their places of business; seen in the SE Asia City Model
Banlieues
French term - refers to a suburb of a large city
Bid rent theory
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
Census blocks
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
Census tracts (CT)
Urban areas are divided into census tracts - which are contiguous geographic region that function as the building block of the census
Central Business District (CBD)
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
Colonial CBD (African cities)
Has broad, straight avenues and large homes, parks, and administrative centers- has grid pattern for order and control
Commercial zone
Any part of a city or town in which the primary land use us commercial activities (shops, offices, and so on)
Concentric-zone Model (Burgess)
A structural model of the Amerfican central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center
Density (housing)
A measurement of housing units in a given area
Disamenity Zones
High-poverty urban areas in disadvantages locations containing sleep slopes, flood-prone ground, rail lines, landfills or industry
Galactic City Model (peripheral model)
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
Infill development
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
Informal satellite townships
Squatter settlements in the African city model
Infrastructure
Fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools
Latin American City Model (Griffin-Ford Model)
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
Mall
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
Multiple-nuclei model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes and activities
Municipal
Relating to a city, town, village, or the like with local self-government
Municipality
A city, town, etc. having its own incorporated government for local affairs
Nodes
Points of function points of a functional region
Perferico
In Latin city model - radial road that likely circles the city, connecting the mall with an industrial park or parks
Port zone
It is export orientated and similar to the CBD in North American cities
