Unit 6 Flashcards
Blockbusting
A practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners in a neighborhood to sell their homes by convincing them that the neighborhood is declining due to black families moving in
Gentrification
The displacement of lower-income residents by higher-income residents as an area or neighborhood improves
World city
A world center of trade, finance, information, and migration
Rank-size
The population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy
New urbanism
An approach to city planning that focuses on fostering European-style cities of dense settlements, attractive architecture, and housing of different types and prices within walking distance to shopping, restaurants, jobs, and public transportation
Shantytown
An area of degraded, seemingly temporary, inadequate, and often illegal housing
Edge city
A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or central business district
Urban sprawl
The rapid development outward from the inner city
Redlining
The practice of identifying high-risk neighborhoods on a city map and refusing to lend money to people who want to buy property in those neighborhoods
Infilling
The process by which population density in an urban center is increased by building on waste land or underused land
Megalopolis
Chain of interconnected cities
Filtering.
The process of subdivision of houses and occupancy by succesive waves of lower-income
Primate city
A city that is much larger than any other city in the country and that dominates the country’s economic, political, and cultural life
Megacity
A city with more than 10 million residents
Meta city
A city with more than 20 million resident
