vocab 13 (urban

Question 1

site

Answer 1

absolute location of a city

Question 2

situation

Answer 2

a site’s connection to another site, a city’s place i the region and world around it.

Question 3

Gentrification

Answer 3

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from being majorly low income to being predominantly middle class.

Question 4

Edge City

Answer 4

A node of an office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

Question 5

Commericialization

Answer 5

Buying and selling, commerce

Question 6

Teardowns/Mc mansions

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

urban sprawl

Answer 7

unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments and roads over land expanses of land with limited concern for urban sprawling.
caused by automobile era.

Question 8

New Urbanism

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Central Business District

Answer 9

It is the commercial and business center of a city.

Question 10

Suburbanization

Answer 10

It is the movement of people from the central cities to the surrounding areas to set up residential communities.

Question 11

Edge city

Answer 11

self sufficient cities, suburban down towns often located near freway intersections. near outskirts of the city

Question 12

Boomburbs

Answer 12

A rapidly growing suburban city that has developed it’s own unique identity.

Question 13

Exurbs

Answer 13

A settlement that exists outside of a suburban area but remains connected to the metro area.

Question 14

Gated communities

Answer 14

a residential area that has gates to control the movement of people in and out of the area.

Question 15

Trade area

Answer 15

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)

Question 16

Range

Answer 16

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use your services.

Question 17

Threshold

Answer 17

The minimum number of people it takes for your business to survive.

Question 18

Primate City

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Rank size rule

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Mega city

Answer 20

A city with a population of more than 10 million

Question 21

Meta city

Answer 21

A city or urban area with a population of more than 20 million

Question 22

Redlining

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

Central Place Theory

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Urbicide

Answer 24

The deliberate wrecking or killing of a city by a direct or indirect means.

Question 25

world city/ global city

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Functional zonation

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the division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions e.g (residential, industrial).

Question 27

Shanty towns

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Spaces of consumption

Answer 28

areas of a city which the main purpose is to encourage people to consume goods and services driven primarily by the global media industry

Question 29

Smart growth

Answer 29

urban planning that avoids urban sprawl and focuses on long term implications with sustainable design of transporting

Question 30

Urbanization

Answer 30

The movement of people from rural areas to urban areas/cities

Question 31

Social Stratification

Answer 31

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.

Question 32

Blockbusting

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

1st Urban Revolution

Answer 33

has to do with the forming of the first cities on the river valley hearths mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, mesoamerica

Question 34

2nd Urban Revolution

Answer 34

late 1800s when cities started Industrializing happened aroujd when the industrial revoltuion happened and everyone was moving to the cities for jobs.