Unit 6 Vocabulary (Terms 21-40)

Question 1

Functional Zonation

Answer 1

Division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions.

Question 2

Gentrification

Answer 2

The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner cities.

Question 3

Ghettos

Answer 3

A poor, densely populated city district often populated by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.

Question 4

Ghost Towns

Answer 4

Abandoned settlements typically due to a shrinking population, economy, and poor accessibility. Their relative location has been altered or lost certain advantages such as access to trade or resources.

Question 5

Gravity Model

Answer 5

A mathematical prediction of the interaction of places, the interaction being a function of population size of the respective places and the distance between them.

Question 6

Greenbelt

Answer 6

A ring of land, largely undeveloped, designated and maintained as parks, agriculture, or other open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area - most typical in European cities.

Question 7

Hinterland

Answer 7

The area surrounding an urban center. Basically, it is all of the suburbs that rely on the urban center. In the case of a port city the hinterland also includes the inland area whose trade flows through that port.

Question 8

Horizontal Integration

Answer 8

Ownership by the same firm of a number of companies that exist at the same point on a commodity chain.

Question 9

Infilling

Answer 9

Can be new construction or redevelopment of vacant parcels of land within previously built areas; to slow urban sprawl

Question 10

Infrastructure

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Market area

Answer 11

The area surrounding a central place or the area a service or business expects to attract customers

Question 12

Megacity

Answer 12

A metropolitan area with a population greater than 10 million people

Question 13

Megalopolis

Answer 13

Large urban areas in which super cities are forming; they often have more than 1 function

Question 14

Metacity

Answer 14

A metropolitan area with a population of greater than 20 million people

Question 15

Multiplier Effect

Answer 15

Effect in which new basic sector employment creates a larger share of nonbasic workers, decreasing the ratio of basic sector workers to nonbasic

Question 16

New Urbanism

Answer 16

To counter urban sprawl, neighborhoods are created that are walkable, smaller lot lines, more communal spaces, with a diversity of housing and jobs. New urbanists want to create neighborhoods that promote a sense of community and a sense of place. Celebration, Florida is a great example

Question 17

Nucleated

Answer 17

Identified pattern, like cities forming around a larger central area of development

Question 18

Primate City

Answer 18

A country’s largest and main city.

Question 19

Primate City Rule

Answer 19

A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

Question 20

Privatization

Answer 20

To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control