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| 6871809571 | city | Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as municipality | 0 | |
| 6871826517 | urbanized area | the US, in urban area with atleast 50,000 inhabitants | 1 | |
| 6871833714 | Urban Cluster | in the US, an urban area with between 22,500 and 50,000 inhabitants | 2 | |
| 6871843072 | Metropolitan statistical Area | In the US an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population the country with in which the city isolated, the adjacent countries meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to a central city | 3 | |
| 6871887144 | Micropolitan statistical area | An urbanized area of between 100,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the country in which it is located, and adjacent countries tied to the city. | 4 | |
| 6871908821 | Core based statistical areas | In the US, any MSA and usa | 5 | |
| 6871919070 | Combined statistical areas | in the US, 2 or more contiguous CBSA's tied together by commuting patterns | 6 | |
| 6871942224 | Primary Statistical areas | in the US, any CSA, any MSA not included in a CSA or any USA not included in a CSA | 7 | |
| 6871957724 | Central business district | area of a a city where retail and office activities are clustered | 8 | |
| 6871965022 | Concentric zone model | model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series | 9 | |
| 6871969472 | sector model | `a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arrange around a sense of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from central business district | 10 | |
| 6872022130 | Multiple nuclei model | model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities | 11 | |
| 6872034039 | edge cities | a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area | 12 | |
| 6872041350 | social area analysis | statistical analysis used to identify where ppl of similar living standards, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyle live with in an urban area | 13 | |
| 6872058398 | census tracts | an area delinted by the US Burea of the census for which statistic are published, in urban, census tracts corresponds roughly to neighborhoods | 14 | |
| 6872070434 | informal Settlement | an area with in a city in a less developed country in which ppl illegally establish residences on land they don't own or rent and erect homelands structures | 15 | |
| 6872079933 | Suburb | residential or commercial area situated with in an urban area but outside the central city | 16 | |
| 6872088756 | annexation | legally adding land area to a city in the US | 17 | |
| 6872091659 | smart growth | legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland | 18 | |
| 6872099269 | sprawl | development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area | 19 | |
| 6872108657 | peripheral model | model of worth american urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring rd | 20 | |
| 6872122478 | density gradient | change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery | 21 | |
| 6872130702 | Megalopolis | continuous urban complex in the northern eastern US | 22 | |
| 6872135914 | zoning ordinance | law that limits the permitted uses of land and max density of development in a communtiy | 23 | |
| 6872141560 | rush hour | 4 consecutive 15 min periods in the morning and evening with heaviest volumes of traffic | 24 | |
| 6872154081 | underclass | a group in society prevented from participating in material benefits of a more developed society bc of a variety of social and economic characteristics | 25 | |
| 6872172581 | filtering | process of change in use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment | 26 | |
| 6872185444 | relining | process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines | 27 | |
| 6872169933 | gentrification | a process of converting an urban neighborhood from predominately low income, renter-occupied area to a predominately middle-class, owner occupied area | 28 | |
| 6872229641 | public housing | Government owned housing rented to low income individual, with rents set at 30% of the tenant's income | 29 | |
| 6872241379 | sustainable development | Development that meets the needs of the present with out comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs | 30 |
