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
