unit 6 vocab

Question 1

a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100000 residents

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boomburg

Question 2

a theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surrounding communities

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central place theory

Question 3

a type of community located on the outskirts of a large city with commercial centers with office space, retail, complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

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edge city

Question 4

a topically fast growing community of or an on the edge of a metropolitan area where the resident and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

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exurb

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a model tha predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s low of universal gravitation

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gravity model

Question 6

redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

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infill

Question 7

a city with a population of more than 10 million

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megacity

Question 8

a city with a population of more than 290 million

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metacity

Question 9

a city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally buy the city

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metropolitan city

Question 10

in central place theory the distance that someone is willing to travel for a good or service

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range

Question 11

the larges city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance

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primate city

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explanation of size of cities within a country, states that second - largest city will be one half the size of the largest. the third largest will be one third the size of the largest and so on

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rank size rule

Question 13

in central place theory, the number of people needed to support a business

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threshold

Question 14

a city and its surrounding suburbs

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urban area

Question 15

areas of poor planned low density development surrounding a city

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urban sprawl

Question 16

a city that wields political, cultural, and economic influence pm a global scale

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world city

Question 17

a model of urban development depicting a city with three central business districts, growing outward in a series of concentric rings

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African city model

Question 18

a model of urban development depicting a city grown outward from a central business district in a series of economic rings

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concentric-zone model

Question 19

a high poverty urban area in a disadvantage location containing steep slopes flood prone ground, rail lines landfills or industry

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disamentity zone

Question 20

a model of urban development depicting a city where economic activity has moved the central business distinct toward losing coalitions of other urban areas and suburbs also knows as the peripheral model

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galactic city model

Question 21

a model of urban development depicting a city with a central business district concentric rings and sections stricken by poverty; also known as the Griffin Ford model

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Latin American city model

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a model of urban development depicting a city where growth occurs around the progressive integration of multiple nodes, not around one central business district

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multiple nuclei model

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the focal point of a functional region

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node

Question 24

a model of urban development depicting a city with wedge shaped sectors and divisions emanating from the central business district, generally along transit routes

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sector model

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a model of tuba development depicting a city oriented around a port and lacking a formal central business district, growing a formal central business district growing outward in a concentric rings and along multiples nodes

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Southeast Asian City model

Question 26

an informal housing area beset with over crowding and poverty that features temporary homes often made of wooden scraps or metal sheeting

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squatter settlement

Question 27

the process of dividing a city or urban area into zones with which only certain land uses are permitted

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zoning

Question 28

a practice by real estate agents who would stir up concern that black families would soon move into a neighborhood; the agents would convince white property owners to sell their houses at below market prices

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blockbusting

Question 29

abandoned and polluted industrial site in a central city or suburb

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brownfield

Question 30

segregation that results from residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws

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de facto segregation

Question 31

impact of a person or community on the enviornment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources

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ecological footprint

Question 32

a government's right to take over privately owned property for public use or interest

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eminent domain

Question 33

the ways in which communities of color and poor people are more likely to be exposed to enviornmental burdens such as air pollution or contaminated water; also called enviornmental racism

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enviornmental injustice

Question 34

a school of thought that promotes designing growth to limit the amount of urban sprawl and preserve nature and usable farmland

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new urbanism

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practice by which a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhoods racial or ethnic makeup

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redlining

Question 36

planning conducted on a regional scale that seeks to coordinate the developementof housing, transportation, urban infastructure, and economic activites

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regional planning

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a ring of parkland agricultural land, or other type of open space maintained around on urban area to limit sprawl

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greenbelt

Question 38

law that creates affordable housing by offering incentives for developers to set aside a minimum percentage of new housing construction to be allocated for low-income renters or buyers

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inclusionary zoning law

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the legal rights as defined by a society associated with owning land

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land tenure

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a single planned developement designed to include multiple uses, such as residential, retail, educational, recreational, industrial, and office spaces

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mixed-use development

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zoning that permits multiple land uses in the same space or structure

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mixed-use zoning

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city where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which the city grows outward

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slow-growth city

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policy implemented to create sustainable communities by placing developement in convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and enviornmentally responsible

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smart-growth policy

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zoning that creates seperated zones based on land-use type or economic function such as various categories or residential (low,medium, or high-density) commercial or industrial

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traditional zoning

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the creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use communities centered around of located near a transit station

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transportation-oriented developement

Question 46

a boundary that seperated urban land uses from rural land uses by limiting how far a city can expand

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urban growth boundary

Question 47

the nationwide movement that developed in the 1950s and 1960s when US cities were given massive federal grants to tear down and clear out slums as a means of rebuilding their downtowns

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urban renewal

Question 48

a measure of how safe, convenient, and efficient it is to walk in an urban enviornment

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walkability

Question 49

an area that has been largely deserted due to lack of jobs, declines in land values, and falling demand

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zone of abandonment

Question 50

the process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower-income groups

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filtering