Unit 6: Chapter 16 Flashcards
Central Business district
a commercial heart of a city
Concentric Zone (Burgess)
Older homes closer to CBD, development outwards, rings
Hoyt Sector Model
Wedges, industry and transportation are close, across city
Multiple Nuclei Model
Multiple CBDs/nodes
Galactic (peripheral) model
post industrialization, edge cities that interact with each other
Latin American City Model
CBD in center with a spine of wealth leading to mall. Poverty in other areas
Sub Saharan African city model
3 CBDs in centers. Squatter settlements on outside
Southeast Asian city model
Port zone is focus of city.
Infilling
population density grows by building on waste land or underused land
squatter settlements
residential areas for poor people in a city that they have no legal claim to
brownfields
area potentially contaminated
