Vocabs 71-80

Question 1

Filtering

Answer 1

a process where a house passes from one social group to another and has its use changed (ex: single family home to rented units in a multifamily dwelling to an abandoned building over time)

Question 2

Gated communities

Answer 2

walled or fenced neighborhoods with limited access and entry points; planned to control access and aesthetics within a community

Question 3

annexation

Answer 3

the process of adding land to a city’s legally defined territory

Question 3

Big-box retail

Answer 3

the most successful, prominent store companies (ex: Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, Lowes)

Question 4

Suburbanization of business

Answer 4

the movement of commerce out of cities to suburbs where rents are cheaper and commutes for employees are shorter (ex: building strip malls and big-box stores near subdivisions or along highways in the suburbs)

Question 5

municipal

Answer 5

the local government, or its services, of a city or town

Question 6

bedroom communities

Answer 6

commuter suburbs; areas without central businesses/work that act only as a place to live

Question 7

urban redlining

Answer 7

the process by which banks refuse loans to those who want to purchase and improve properties in certain urban areas

Question 7

brownfields

Answer 7

consists of dilapidated buildings and polluted or contaminated soils

Question 8

Urban redevelopment

Answer 8

renovating a site within a city by removing the existing landscape and rebuilding from the ground up