Urban Growth Terms Flashcards
(20 cards)
Central business district (cbd)
Services in downtown areas
Business services
Services from businesses to help people
Central place
A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted by the surrounding area
Consumer services
Services for consumers
Economic base
A communities unique collection of basic industries
Personal services
Services for the personal needs
Primate city
The countrys largest city
Producer services
Services from a producer
Public services
Services for the people in a certain area
Retail services
Services that you must buy like food
Annexation
The legal process of adding land to a city
Census tract
Contain aproximately 5000 residents and correspond where possible to neighborhood boundaries
Edge city
Nodes of consumer and business services
Gentrification
The process by which middle class people move into deteriorated inner city neighborhoods and renovate the housing
Smart growth
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
Sprawl
The progressive spread of development over the landscape
Squatter settlement
Initiated by a group of individuals who move together onto land outside the city that is owned either by private individual or by the government
Urban renewal
Cities identify blighted inner city neighborhoods, acquire property from private owners, relocate the businesses and residences, clear the site, and build new roads and utilities
Urbanization
The process by which the population of a city grows
Zoning ordinance
Encouraged spacial separation
