Vocabs 51-60

Question 1

Latin American City Model

Answer 1

includes a traditional market center next to a modern high-rise center accompanied by a commercial spine of development (aka Griffen-Ford Model)

Question 2

Urban Spine

Answer 2

A line of commercial development within a city

Question 3

Mall

Answer 3

A growing secondary city center located at the end of a spine, with public gathering places, such as museums, monuments, and parks

Question 4

Shantytowns

Answer 4

Areas of poverty, lack of infrastructure, and poorly built housing located outside of a city; neighborhoods where extreme poverty, homelessness, and lawlessness are common; areas not connected to city services and under under control of drug lords and gangs; often in physically unsafe locations (aka Favelas, Barrios, dis-amenity zones)

Question 5

European cities

Answer 5

-city walls (restrain growth, dense mix of commercial + residential); winding streets

Question 6

African City Model

Answer 6

Includes a traditional CBD, colonial CBD, informal economy zone (with periodic markets), zones of mining/manufacturing, residential zones, and informal settlements on the periphery

Question 7

traditional CBD

Answer 7

CBD that existed before European colonization; has small shops clustered along narrow, twisting streets; formal economy

Question 8

Colonial CBD

Answer 8

Broad, straight avenues with large homes, parks, and administrative centers

Question 9

Informal Economy Zone

Answer 9

curbside, car-side, and stall-based businesses with temporary workers; regulations not closely followed

Question 10

Periodic Markets

Answer 10

A zone where small-scale merchants gather weekly/yearly to sell their goods (ex: farmer’s market)