Unit 6 Vocabulary Flashcards
Gentrification
The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner cities.
Redlining
The discriminatory practice of denying people access to credit because of where they live, even if they are personally qualified for loans - this was typically applied to minority groups prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.
Smart growth
Regulations and policies that limit suburban sprawl, preserve farmland policy and create sustainable communities; design must be more efficient and environmentally responsible.
Disamenity sector
The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and sometimes controlled by gangs and drug lords.
De facto segregation
Segregation that results from natural residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws (De jure segregation is done by law)
Commuter zone
Area in which people choose to live in residential suburbia and take a daily commute into the CBD to work.
Bid Rent Theory
The price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases.
Infrastructure
The basic structure of services, installations, and facilities needed to support industrial, agricultural, and other economic development; included are transport and communications, along with water, power, and other public utilities.
Squatter settlements
An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and sometimes erect homemade structures.
Urban sprawl
Undeveloped land surrounding the city is developed and used for housing and businesses.
Transit deserts
Locations characterized by lacking or inadequate public transportation including poor bike infrastructure, sidewalks and roads.
New urbanism
To counter urban sprawl, neighborhoods are created that are walkable, smaller lot lines, more communal spaces, with a diversity of housing and jobs.
Zoning laws
Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas.
Suburbanization
Movement of upper and middle class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions.
Range
The maximum distance that people are willing to travel to use a service.
