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| 9655104386 | annexation | The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit. |  | 0 |
| 9655105240 | carbon capture and storage | the removal of carbon from fossil-fuel combustion and storage of the carbon, usually underground |  | 1 |
| 9655107097 | census tract | small districs used by the US Census Bureau to survey the population |  | 2 |
| 9655108679 | central business district | The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. |  | 3 |
| 9655110901 | central city | the urban area that is not suburban |  | 4 |
| 9655112698 | combined statistical area | in the US, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns |  | 5 |
| 9655114239 | concentric zone model | 6 | ||
| 9655116184 | core based statistical area | in the US, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas |  | 7 |
| 9655116185 | density gradient | the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery |  | 8 |
| 9655117897 | edge city | a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area |  | 9 |
| 9655117898 | filtering | a process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment |  | 10 |
| 9655121583 | gentrification | the rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents |  | 11 |
| 9655121584 | informal settlement |  | 12 | |
| 9655126167 | megalopolis |  | 13 | |
| 9655130475 | metropolitan statistical area | 7) In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area? |  | 14 |
| 9655133431 | micropolitan statistical area | a city with only 10,000 inhabitants in its core urban area |  | 15 |
| 9655137427 | multiple nuclei model | a city is a complex structure that includes more than one center around which activities revolve |  | 16 |
| 9655138677 | peripheral model | a model of North American urban areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan statistical areas |  | 17 |
| 9655140274 | primary census area |  | 18 | |
| 9655140295 | public housing | a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families |  | 19 |
| 9655141943 | redlining | a practice in which banks refuse to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations |  | 20 |
| 9655141944 | rush hour | the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work |  | 21 |
| 9655143480 | sector model | an economic model that depicts a city as a series of pie-shaped wedges |  | 22 |
| 9655143481 | smart growth | legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |  | 23 |
| 9655145552 | social area analysis |  | 24 | |
| 9655145553 | sprawl |  | 25 | |
| 9655146877 | suburb | a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | | 26 |
| 9655147217 | sustainable development | using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them |  | 27 |
| 9655149339 | underclass | a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations |  | 28 |
| 9655149340 | urban area | a geographical area constituting a city or town | | 29 |
| 9655150620 | urban cluster | In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants. |  | 30 |
| 9655150621 | urbanized area | In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs. |  | 31 |
| 9655153160 | zoning ordinance | a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community |  | 32 |
