Unit 7 - Cities and Urban Land Use Vocab 2 Flashcards
Legally adding area to a city in the United States
Annexation
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
Central Business District
An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality
Central city (city)
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
Concentric zone model
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.
Density gradient
A large node of office and retail
activities on the edge of an urban area
Edge city
The process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy, to apartments to abandonment
Filtering
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low income, renter-occupied area to
a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area
Gentrification
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
Informal settlement
A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States
Megalopolis
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
Metropolitan statistical area
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.
Micropolitan statistical area
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of
nodes of activities
Multiple nuclei model
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
Peripheral model/galactic
Government owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s
income
Public housing
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.
Redlining
The four consecutive 15 minute
periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volume of traffic
Rush hour
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
Sector model
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farm land.
Smart growth
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built up area
Sprawl
A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city
Suburb
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs
Sustainable development
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
Underclass
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
Zoning ordinance
