Unit 6 Vocabulary (Terms 21-40) Flashcards
Functional Zonation
Division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions.
Gentrification
The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner cities.
Ghettos
A poor, densely populated city district often populated by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
Ghost Towns
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.
Gravity Model
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.
Greenbelt
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.
Hinterland
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.
Horizontal Integration
Ownership by the same firm of a number of companies that exist at the same point on a commodity chain.
Infilling
Can be new construction or redevelopment of vacant parcels of land within previously built areas; to slow urban sprawl
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
Market area
The area surrounding a central place or the area a service or business expects to attract customers
Megacity
A metropolitan area with a population greater than 10 million people
Megalopolis
Large urban areas in which super cities are forming; they often have more than 1 function
Metacity
A metropolitan area with a population of greater than 20 million people
Multiplier Effect
Effect in which new basic sector employment creates a larger share of nonbasic workers, decreasing the ratio of basic sector workers to nonbasic
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. New urbanists want to create neighborhoods that promote a sense of community and a sense of place. Celebration, Florida is a great example
Nucleated
Identified pattern, like cities forming around a larger central area of development
Primate City
A country’s largest and main city.
Primate City Rule
A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement
Privatization
To change from government or public ownership or control to private ownership or control
