vocab 6 part 2 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Urban Area
A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs. In the United States, an area is considered urbanized if it has at least 50,000 inhabitants.
Annexation
Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.
Central Business District (CBD)
The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
Concentric Zone Model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
Edge City
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
Gentrification
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
Informal Settlement
An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.
Megalopolis
A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.
Multiple Nuclei Model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around
a collection of
nodes of activities.
Peripheral Model
A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
Public Housing
Government-owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s income.
Sector Model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.
Sprawl
Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
Sustainable Development
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Zoning Ordinance
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
