vocab 13 (urban Flashcards
site
absolute location of a city
situation
a site’s connection to another site, a city’s place i the region and world around it.
Gentrification
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from being majorly low income to being predominantly middle class.
Edge City
A node of an office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
Commericialization
Buying and selling, commerce
Teardowns/Mc mansions
Tear down- houses that home owners buy with the intent of building a larger home.
McMansion- Houses that don’t necessarily fit the neighborhood. large homes built to the outer limits of the lot.
urban sprawl
unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments and roads over land expanses of land with limited concern for urban sprawling.
caused by automobile era.
New Urbanism
It is trying to get people to move back into the city. you would see development, urban revitalization, suburban reforms that create walk able neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs.
Central Business District
It is the commercial and business center of a city.
Suburbanization
It is the movement of people from the central cities to the surrounding areas to set up residential communities.
Edge city
self sufficient cities, suburban down towns often located near freway intersections. near outskirts of the city
Boomburbs
A rapidly growing suburban city that has developed it’s own unique identity.
Exurbs
A settlement that exists outside of a suburban area but remains connected to the metro area.
Gated communities
a residential area that has gates to control the movement of people in and out of the area.
Trade area
The area around a business that is measured around with range and threshold or where your influence in. e.g restaurants have small trade areas, while museums will have larger trade areas. All of the hexagons are trade areas for the different settlements (hamlet, village, town, city)
Range
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use your services.
Threshold
The minimum number of people it takes for your business to survive.
Primate City
One city is proportionally larger than the rest of the city’s in the country and is usually more dominant than the rest. e.g london, paris, mexico city
Rank size rule
The 2nd largest city is half of the largest city, the 3rd largest is one third of the biggest, the 4th largest is one fourth of the largest city. America follows this.
Mega city
A city with a population of more than 10 million
Meta city
A city or urban area with a population of more than 20 million
Redlining
It was an illegal practice when bankers put neighborhoods in the green side or the red side. The green neighborhoods were the Caucasian race and they got loans easier, while the red neighborhoods were colored and just less developed.
Central Place Theory
by Walter christaller. It was a model developed to predict how and where central places in the urban hierarchy would be functionally and spatially distributed. 6 assumptions.
there are 6 urban settlements: hamlet, village, town, city. The higher you go up the urban settlements the larger the trade areas.
Urbicide
The deliberate wrecking or killing of a city by a direct or indirect means.
world city/ global city
New York, London, Tokyo.
A dominant city in terms of it’s role in the global political economy: center of the flow for information and capital
Functional zonation
the division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions e.g (residential, industrial).
Shanty towns
Unplanned slum development on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scrap wood, iron, and even pieces of cardboard
Spaces of consumption
areas of a city which the main purpose is to encourage people to consume goods and services driven primarily by the global media industry
Smart growth
urban planning that avoids urban sprawl and focuses on long term implications with sustainable design of transporting
Urbanization
The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas/cities
Social Stratification
Social stratification refers to a society’s categorization of its people into rankings of socioeconomic tiers based on factors like wealth, income, race, education, and power.
Blockbusting
When real estate owners convice people to sell their houses at a lower prices because of the fear that people of color will soon move into the area.
1st Urban Revolution
has to do with the forming of the first cities on the river valley hearths mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, mesoamerica
2nd Urban Revolution
late 1800s when cities started Industrializing happened aroujd when the industrial revoltuion happened and everyone was moving to the cities for jobs.
