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unit 6 vocab Flashcards

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a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100000 residents

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boomburg

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a theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surrounding communities

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central place theory

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a type of community located on the outskirts of a large city with commercial centers with office space, retail, complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

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edge city

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a topically fast growing community of or an on the edge of a metropolitan area where the resident and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

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exurb

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a model tha predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s low of universal gravitation

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gravity model

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6
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redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

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infill

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a city with a population of more than 10 million

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megacity

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a city with a population of more than 290 million

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metacity

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a city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally buy the city

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metropolitan city

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10
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in central place theory the distance that someone is willing to travel for a good or service

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range

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11
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the larges city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance

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primate city

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12
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explanation of size of cities within a country, states that second - largest city will be one half the size of the largest. the third largest will be one third the size of the largest and so on

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rank size rule

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13
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in central place theory, the number of people needed to support a business

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threshold

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14
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a city and its surrounding suburbs

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urban area

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areas of poor planned low density development surrounding a city

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urban sprawl

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16
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a city that wields political, cultural, and economic influence pm a global scale

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world city

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17
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a model of urban development depicting a city with three central business districts, growing outward in a series of concentric rings

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African city model

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18
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a model of urban development depicting a city grown outward from a central business district in a series of economic rings

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concentric-zone model

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a high poverty urban area in a disadvantage location containing steep slopes flood prone ground, rail lines landfills or industry

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disamentity zone

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20
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a model of urban development depicting a city where economic activity has moved the central business distinct toward losing coalitions of other urban areas and suburbs also knows as the peripheral model

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galactic city model

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21
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a model of urban development depicting a city with a central business district concentric rings and sections stricken by poverty; also known as the Griffin Ford model

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Latin American city model

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a model of urban development depicting a city where growth occurs around the progressive integration of multiple nodes, not around one central business district

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multiple nuclei model

23
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the focal point of a functional region

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node

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a model of urban development depicting a city with wedge shaped sectors and divisions emanating from the central business district, generally along transit routes

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sector model

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a model of tuba development depicting a city oriented around a port and lacking a formal central business district, growing a formal central business district growing outward in a concentric rings and along multiples nodes

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Southeast Asian City model

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an informal housing area beset with over crowding and poverty that features temporary homes often made of wooden scraps or metal sheeting

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squatter settlement

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

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zoning

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a practice by real estate agents who would stir up concern that black families would soon move into a neighborhood; the agents would convince white property owners to sell their houses at below market prices

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blockbusting

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abandoned and polluted industrial site in a central city or suburb

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brownfield

30
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segregation that results from residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws

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de facto segregation

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impact of a person or community on the enviornment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources

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ecological footprint

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a government’s right to take over privately owned property for public use or interest

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eminent domain

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the ways in which communities of color and poor people are more likely to be exposed to enviornmental burdens such as air pollution or contaminated water; also called enviornmental racism

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enviornmental injustice

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

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new urbanism

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practice by which a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhoods racial or ethnic makeup

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redlining

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planning conducted on a regional scale that seeks to coordinate the developementof housing, transportation, urban infastructure, and economic activites

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regional planning

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a ring of parkland agricultural land, or other type of open space maintained around on urban area to limit sprawl

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greenbelt

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law that creates affordable housing by offering incentives for developers to set aside a minimum percentage of new housing construction to be allocated for low-income renters or buyers

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inclusionary zoning law

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the legal rights as defined by a society associated with owning land

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land tenure

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a single planned developement designed to include multiple uses, such as residential, retail, educational, recreational, industrial, and office spaces

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mixed-use development

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

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mixed-use zoning

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city where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which the city grows outward

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slow-growth city

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policy implemented to create sustainable communities by placing developement in convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and enviornmentally responsible

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smart-growth policy

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zoning that creates seperated zones based on land-use type or economic function such as various categories or residential (low,medium, or high-density) commercial or industrial

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traditional zoning

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the creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use communities centered around of located near a transit station

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transportation-oriented developement

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a boundary that seperated urban land uses from rural land uses by limiting how far a city can expand

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urban growth boundary

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the nationwide movement that developed in the 1950s and 1960s when US cities were given massive federal grants to tear down and clear out slums as a means of rebuilding their downtowns

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urban renewal

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a measure of how safe, convenient, and efficient it is to walk in an urban enviornment

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walkability

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an area that has been largely deserted due to lack of jobs, declines in land values, and falling demand

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zone of abandonment

50
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the process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower-income groups

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filtering

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