Unit 7 - Cities and Urban Land Use Vocab 2

Question 1

Legally adding area to a city in the United States

Answer 1

Annexation

Question 2

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

Answer 2

Central Business District

Question 3

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality

Answer 3

Central city (city)

Question 4

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings

Answer 4

Concentric zone model

Question 5

The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.

Answer 5

Density gradient

Question 6

A large node of office and retail
activities on the edge of an urban area

Answer 6

Edge city

Question 7

The process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy, to apartments to abandonment

Answer 7

Filtering

Question 8

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low income, renter-occupied area to
a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area

Answer 8

Gentrification

Question 9

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 erect
homemade structures

Answer 9

Informal settlement

Question 10

A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States

Answer 10

Megalopolis

Question 11

In the US, an urbanized area of a least 50,000 population, the country within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests including a functional
connection to the central city

Answer 11

Metropolitan statistical area

Question 12

An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the country in which it is located, and adjacent
counties tied to the city.

Answer 12

Micropolitan statistical area

Question 13

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of
nodes of activities

Answer 13

Multiple nuclei model

Question 14

A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road

Answer 14

Peripheral model/galactic

Question 15

Government owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s
income

Answer 15

Public housing

Question 16

A process by which financial
institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within that line.

Answer 16

Redlining

Question 17

The four consecutive 15 minute
periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volume of traffic

Answer 17

Rush hour

Question 18

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors,
or wedges, radiating out from the central business district

Answer 18

Sector model

Question 19

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farm land.

Answer 19

Smart growth

Question 20

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built up area

Answer 20

Sprawl

Question 21

A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city

Answer 21

Suburb

Question 22

Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs

Answer 22

Sustainable development

Question 23

A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because
of a variety of social and economic characteristics

Answer 23

Underclass

Question 24

A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.

Answer 24

Zoning ordinance