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Vocab Check 6.2 Flashcards

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Metropolitan Statistical Areas

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geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area

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Network Cities

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when two or more previously independent cities, potentially complementary in function, strive to cooperate and achieve “scale of economics”

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Quantitative Data

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numerical and objective (census and survey)

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Census

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a count - the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about members of a given population

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Qualitative Data

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personal, subjective to a person’s life experiences and interpretation, and tends to be descriptive in nature

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Feild Studies

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studies about an area to see what people in the community want

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Narratives

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a visual or descriptive presentation depicting a sample of the populations answers to the questions

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Changes in Individual Attitudes Toward Urban Change

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sometimes people don’t agree with the choice that is being made, so the government can change that by going in small steps as to change people to a more positive outlook

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Example: Food Deserts

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an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food,

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Example: School Attendance Zones

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These are inherently segregated due to the difference in people living in different areas causing one school to be predominantly one race vs. another

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Example: Urban Revitalization

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a set of city led initiatives aimed at recognizing an existing city structure, particularly in neighborhoods in decline due to economic or social reasons

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Zoning Practices

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the process of dividing land in a municipality (city) into zones in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited

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Forward Capitols

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a symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons

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Sustainable Design Initiatives

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goal is to move people away from their personal transport and towards mass public transportation

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Walkability

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the ease at which one can walk around the area that they live

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Transportation-Oriented Design

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a city that is focused on making transportation availability its ain fucus when in design

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Brownfield Redevelopment

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a way that cities are tacking issues of urban sprawl and unsustainable urban resource

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Smart-Growth Policies

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directed at developing sustainable communities that provide a greater range of transportation and housing choices and prioritize existing communities

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New Urbanism

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an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighborhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types

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Greenbelts

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policy and land use zone designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped wild or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas

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Slow-Growth Cities

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urban communities where the panners have put into place smart growth initiatives to decrease the rate at which the city grows horizontally to avoid sprawls

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Positives of Urban Design Initiatives

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reduction of urban sprawl, improved walkability and transportation, improved and diverse housing options, improved livability, and promotion of sustainable options

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Increased Housing Costs

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in densely built places, the housing is more expensive

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Possible Worsening of de Facto Segregation

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the encouraged gentrification can cause the displacement of more diverse populations that previously occupied that space

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Potential Loss of Historical Landscape/Character of Place Challenges to Urban Sustainability

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as more things are being rebuilt they lose their original character and start looking similar to other places, which causes “placelessness”

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Suburban Sprawl

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increase of paved areas lead to environmental issues such as flooding and runoff population

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Sanitation Services

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all the new houses needs infrastructure, including sanitation services

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Climate Change/Urban Heat Island

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an urban or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities

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Air and Water Quality

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more people means more air and water pollution due to the runoff from cars and the gas

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Energy Use

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people in the cities need more power to do basic tasks on a daily basis, this high demand for loads of infrastructure is hard to maintain.

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Regional Planning Efforts

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one response to political fragmentation is to create regional planning boards or coalitions of government

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Remediation and Redevelopment of Brownfields

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there is a big push to prevent horizontal growth of cities by redeveloping land that is inside of the city

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Establishment of Urban Growth Boundaries

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this means setting a limit on how far out the urban sprawl can develope, creating a boundary to keep development from moving past it.

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Farmland Protection Policies

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these policies are ordinances/laws meant to discourage the conversion of farmland into non-agricultural uses

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Population Composition

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the description of population defined by characteristics such as age, race, sex, or marital status

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Socioeconomic Conditions

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a broad concept that includes such factors as educational attainment, occupation, income, wealth, and deprivation

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Urban Services

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services provided in context of city management including transportation, housing assistance, water management, waste management, snow clearance, etc.

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Brownfields

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any previously developed land that is not currently in use that may be potentially contaminated

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Growth of the Suburbs

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a result of transportation movements, reduced home prices made this the dream which caused many epople to leave

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GI Bill and VA Loans

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allow you to get loans to buy homes and get education and jobs that you need

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“White Flight”

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the movement of white people into the suburbs

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Racial Steering

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the practice in which real estate brokers quide prospectuive home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on race

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Redlining

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the systematic denial of various services to residants of specific neighboorhoods or communities

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Blockbusting

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the practice of real estate speculators, who would convince whit eresidants to sell theur home at under-valued prices

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Gentrifictation

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increases home values, makes the proproties unaffordable for the long-time residents

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Proprotey Taxes

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if long time residants own their home outright or with a fixed mortage payment, they may still be “priced out” due to gentrifictaion/increaseing houseing prices

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Increaseing Rent

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rents are also based on market value, so as proproty value increases, so do rents

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Femanization of Poverty

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an increase in the differwence in the levels of poverty amoung women and men or amoung femalve vs man headed households

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Access to Services

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when the “white flight” happened there was a lack of funding in the city this caused “ghettoization”

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Rising Crime

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the poorer parts of the cities have rising crime because there isn’t as much supervision obver the area

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Environmental Injustice

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minorities and socioeconomic class disproportionately live in unhealthy environments

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Squatter Settlements

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any collectio of buildings where people have no legal rights to the land they are built upon

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Inclusionary Zoning

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refers to municipal and county planning ordinances that require a given share of new construction to be affordable by people with low to maderate incomes

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Local food Movements

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is food that is prodcued within a short distance of where it is consumed

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Urban Renewal

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projects are public and private infrastructure and community construction projects with the goalk of bringing people back into impoverished parts of the city

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Benifits (Conflict Over Land Tenure Responses to Economic and Social Challenges)

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more available jobs, promotes building of new housing, and brings more money into the local community

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Challenges (Conflict Over Land Tenure Responses to Economic and Social Challenges)

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rarely help the people that they are meant to help, poor stay poor and get pushed out of the community

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Gentrification

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changing the charecter of a nieghborhood through the influx of more affluent residants and businesses

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HOAs, School Boards, City, County, State

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These groups struggle to make desitions together and often make differnet decisions even when they are in an overlapping government region

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