wotd Flashcards
(25 cards)
What is Urbanization?
The process by which people live and are employed in a city.
What is an Edge City?
An urban area with a large suburban residential and business area surrounding it.
What is a Megacity?
A city that has a very large, and growing, population. Megacities are typically found in the developing world.
What is a CBD?
Central Business District is where a large amount of businesses are located. In the concentric zone model, it is located in the center of the city.
What is a World City?
An urban center that is a major player in the global economy and is connected to a network of other global cities through economic, cultural, and political linkages.
What is Central Place Theory?
In any given region there can only be one large central city, which is surrounded by a series of smaller cities, towns, and hamlets.
What are Financial Services?
Businesses that provide financial services to the population, including banking, insurance, investments, etc.
What are Public Services?
Services that are created for the public benefit, such as schools, transportation, hospitals, utilities, etc.
What is the Gravity Model?
The interaction between two places can be determined by the product of the population of both places, divided by the square of their distance from one another.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
A model developed by Burgess that describes expansion in concentric rings around the central business district.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
A city that does not have one central area, but instead has several nodes that act as regional centers for economic or residential activity within one larger city.
Example: Los Angeles
What is a Density Gradient?
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.
What is a Clustered Rural Settlement?
An agricultural-based settlement in which houses are close together.
What is a Walkable City?
The extent to which the built environment is friendly to the presence of people living, shopping, visiting, enjoying or spending time in an area.
What are Greenbelts?
A section of land deliberately left undeveloped as either forest or agricultural space, often near urban centers, generally for purposes of environmental conservation.
What is Urban Sprawl?
The expansion of cities and urban areas into surrounding rural or undeveloped land.
What is a Squatter 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.
What is Redlining?
The term comes from the lines real estate lenders drew on their maps marking predominantly Black or mixed-race neighborhoods.
What is Gentrification?
A process where wealthy, college-educated individuals begin to move into poor or working-class communities.
What is Urban Renewal?
The process of redeveloping areas with low property values in order to create new infrastructure and increase tax revenue.
What does Anthropogenic mean?
Caused or produced by humans.
What is a Uniform Region?
An area within which everyone shares in common one or more distinctive characteristics.
What is a Reference Map?
A generalized map type designed to show general spatial properties of features (e.g., world maps, road maps, atlas).
What is a Thematic Map?
A map made to reflect a particular theme about a geographic area (e.g., geographic, political).
