Urbanization Vocab 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
Central Business District
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
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
Class structure, lower class, middle class, upper class.
Social Structure
The area with the greatest land value, and commercial value.
Peak Land Value Intersection
Area outside of central business district, contains the slums.
Zone in Transition
High-density areas of lower class citizens who live in substandard housing.
Slums
Rundown apartment buildings that are minimally kept up by landlords because their value is so low.
Tenements
A zone where a number of people commute either into the city or to the other suburbs for work.
Commuter Zone
continued expansion of the central business district and the continual push outwards of the zones.
Invasion and Succession
Large commercial centers that offer entertainment and shopping in the suburbs.
Edge Cities
The principle that development spurs more development.
Multiplier Effect
