unit 6 vocab

Question 1

site

Answer 1

exact location of a city chosen for trade, defense, etc.

Question 2

situation

Answer 2

location of a place on earth relative to other places (city’s role).

Question 3

urbanization

Answer 3

process in which cities grow, and higher percentages of population come to live in the city.

Question 4

megacities

Answer 4

has large and growing population, in large urban centers, population greater than 10 million.

Question 5

metacities

Answer 5

large cluster of megacities, population greater than 20 million, connected through transportation systems and infrastructure.

Question 6

periphery

Answer 6

the lesser developed part of towns or regions, usually located at edge of cities/regions.

Question 7

semi-periphery

Answer 7

countries that are somewhere in between the most industrialized nations and the other peripheral regions.

Question 8

suburbanization

Answer 8

the process where cities expand outwards beyond their original central areas.

Question 9

urban sprawl

Question 10

urban decentralization

Question 11

edge city

Answer 11

a new concentration of business in suburban areas consisting of suburbs.

Question 12

exurb

Question 13

boomburb

Question 14

world city

Question 15

urban hierarchy

Question 16

globalization

Question 17

rank-size rule

Question 18

primate city

Question 19

gravity model

Question 20

christaller’s central place theory

Question 21

burgess concentric-zone model

Answer 21

city grows outwards from a central area.

Question 22

hoyt sector model

Question 23

harris and ullman multiple nuclei model

Question 24

galactic city model

Question 25

bid-rent theory

Answer 25

explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the cbd.

Question 26

latin america city model

Question 27

southeast asian city model

Question 28

african city model

Question 29

infliing

Question 30

infrastructure

Question 31

sustainable design

Question 32

mixed land use

Question 33

urban walkability

Question 34

transportation-oriented development

Question 35

smart growth policies

Question 36

new urbanism

Question 37

de facto segregation

Question 38

quantitative data

Question 39

census data

Question 40

survey data

Question 41

qualitative data

Question 42

field study

Question 43

field narrative

Question 44

housing discrimination

Question 45

redlining

Question 46

blockbusting

Answer 46

the process of white families selling their homes because of fears that blacks would move in and lower the property value.

Question 47

housing affordability

Question 48

environmental injustice

Question 49

disamenity zone

Question 50

zone of abandonment

Question 51

squatter settlement

Question 52

local food movement

Question 53

urban renewal

Question 54

gentrification

Question 55

urban sustainablity

Question 56

ecological footprint

Question 57

remediation

Question 58

redevelopment

Question 59

brownfields

Question 60

urban growth boundary

Answer 60

An urban growth boundary is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl

Question 61

farmland protection policy

Answer 61

discourages federal activities that would convert farmland to non agricultural purposes.