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| 6625612098 | Bid-Rent Theory | geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases. | 0 | |
| 6625615168 | Blockbusting | Illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell their properties by telling them that a certain people of a certain race, national origin or religion are moving into the area | 1 | |
| 6625626302 | Break-of-Bulk | a location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. | 2 | |
| 6625629970 | Central Business District | The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge. | 3 | |
| 6625632846 | Central City | The urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs. | 4 | |
| 6625637986 | Centrality | The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract producers and consumers to its facilities; a city's "reach" into the surrounding region. | 5 | |
| 6625642166 | Central-Place Theory | a theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther |  | 6 |
| 6625646864 | City | An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit. | 7 | |
| 6625648368 | Computer Zone | 8 | ||
| 6625650489 | Congestion | An overcrowding; a clogging | 9 | |
| 6625656106 | Decentralization | In urban geography, forces that draw people and businesses out of the central city, often into suburbs. In political geography, a process whereby a state transfers functions or authority from the central government to lower-level internal subdivisions. | 10 | |
| 6625661579 | Deindustrialization | process by which companies move industrial jobs to other regions with cheaper labor, leaving the newly deindustrialized region to switch to a service economy and to work through a period of high unemployment | 11 | |
| 6625667168 | Disamenity Sector | The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords. | 12 | |
| 6625670839 | Edge City | Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities nd serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in sprawling, decentralized suburban environment. | 13 | |
| 6625673378 | Emerging Cities | City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate | 14 | |
| 6625685061 | Employment Structure | how the workforce is divided up between the three main employment sectors - primary, secondary, and tertiary | 15 | |
| 6625688117 | Ethnic neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background. | 16 | |
| 6625690666 | Favela | a slum community in a Brazilian city | 17 | |
| 6625694582 | First Urban Revolution | The innovation of the city that occurred separately in five different hearths. People became engaged in economic activities beyond agriculture, including crafts, the military, trade, and government. | 18 | |
| 6625701447 | Formal Economy | The legal economy that is taxed and monitored by a government and is included in a government's Gross National Product; as opposed to an informal economy | 19 | |
| 6625703690 | Gated Community | a restricted access subdivision or neighborhood, often surrounded by a barrier, with entry permitted only for residents and their guests; usually totally planned in land use and design, with "residents only" limitations on public streets and parks | 20 | |
| 6625706981 | Gateway city | Cities that, because of their geographic location, act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas. (Houston) | 21 | |
| 6625709339 | Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. | 22 | |
| 6625711906 | Ghetto | A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions | 23 | |
| 6625714178 | Gravity Model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. |  | 24 |
| 6625723047 | High-tech corridor | Place where technology and computer industries agglomerate | 25 | |
| 6625726598 | Hinterland | The market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves. | 26 | |
| 6625735870 | Infill development | occurs within established urban areas where the site or area either is a vacant place between other developments or has previously been used for another urban purpose. | 27 | |
| 6625740631 | Informal Economy | Economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government; and is not included in that government's Gross National Product; as opposed to a formal economy | 28 | |
| 6625743471 | Infrastructure | is all of the things that a society builds for public use | 29 | |
| 6625747333 | Invasion and Succession | Process by which new immigrants to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups. For example, in the early twentieth century, Puerto Ricans "invaded" the immigrant Jewish neighborhood of East Harlem and successfully took over the neighborhood or "succeeded" the immigrant Jewish population as the dominant immigrant group in the neighborhood | 30 | |
| 6625750869 | Latin America City Model | Business in the center, people live around the center, poor people outside. (Griffin and Ford) | 31 | |
| 6625757174 | 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. | 32 | |
| 6625760293 | Suburb | A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls. | 33 | |
| 6625764356 | Suburbanization | Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century. | 34 | |
| 6625766420 | Sunbelt | A region of the United States generally considered to stretch across the South and Southwest that has seen substantial population growth in recent decades, partly fueled by a surge in retiring baby boomers who migrate domestically, as well as the influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal. |  | 35 |
| 6625774613 | Symbolic Landscape | landscapes that express values, beliefs, and meanings of a particular culture. | 36 | |
| 6626323895 | Tenement | A building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety | 37 | |
| 6626327721 | Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service | 38 | |
| 6626337995 | Urban Fringe | the ring of small towns and suburbs that surround a city | 39 | |
| 6626344706 | Urban function | Services that are provided in a certain urban area | 40 | |
| 6626350153 | Urban Hierarchy | A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions. | 41 | |
| 6626351601 | Urban Realm | a simplified description of urban land use, especially descriptive of the modern North American city. it features a number of dispersed, peripheral centers of dynamic commercial and industrial activity linked by sophisticated urban transportation networks. | 42 | |
| 6626358763 | Urban Sprawl | The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land. | 43 | |
| 6626373650 | Urban Village | distinctive residential districts comprising a clustering of people with a common culture and forming an identifiable community | 44 | |
| 6626378701 | Leapfrog Development | Development that occurs well beyond the limits of the current urbanized area, usually to take advantage of less expensive land | 45 | |
| 6626389289 | Maquiladoras | the term given to zones in Northern Mexico with factories supplying manufactured goods to the U.S. market. The low-wage workers in the primarily foreign-owned factories assemble imported components and/or raw materials and then export finished goods. |  | 46 |
| 6626410988 | Market Area | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | 47 | |
| 6626413822 | Mass Transit | Transportation system designed to move large numbers of people along fixed routes | 48 | |
| 6626416749 | McGee Urban Model |  | 49 | |
| 6626420055 | McMansion | Homes referred to as such because of their "super size" and similarity in appearance to other such homes; homes often built in place of tear-downs in American suburbs. | 50 | |
| 6626422341 | Megacity | A giant urban area that includes surrounding cities and suburbs City with more than 10 million people | 51 | |
| 6626428846 | Megalopolis | Several, metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large, sprawling urban complex. | 52 | |
| 6626433533 | Metropolitan Area | a large city and its suburbs | 53 | |
| 6626437479 | Multiple Nuclei model |  | 54 | |
| 6626440944 | Mixed-Use Development | An approach to urban design that combines different types of land use within a particular neighborhood or district | 55 | |
| 6626446211 | Neighborhood | a small section of a city or town | 56 | |
| 6626450277 | New Urbanism | Outlined by a group of architects, urban planners, and developers from over 20 countries, an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs. | 57 | |
| 6626456619 | Concentric Zone Model (Burgess) |  | 58 | |
| 6626463227 | Sector Model (Hoyt) |  | 59 | |
| 6626470848 | Multiple Nuclei Model (Harris and Ullman) | | 60 | |
| 6626478936 | Urban Realm (Hartshorn and Muller) |  | 61 | |
| 6626497620 | Planned Community | area where developers can plot out each house in development and build community from scratch | 62 | |
| 6626509152 | Primate City | A country's leading city, with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country. | 63 | |
| 6626511046 | Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | 64 | |
| 6626513663 | Rank-Size Rule | a pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement | 65 | |
| 6626521992 | Redlining | A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries. | 66 | |
| 6626532120 | Restrictive Covenant | A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional. | 67 | |
| 6626540735 | Sector Model | | 68 | |
| 6626543377 | Segregation | Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences | 69 | |
| 6626545431 | Sequent Occupation | the notion that succedsive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place each contributing to the cumulative cultural land scape | 70 | |
| 6626547921 | Shanty Town | a neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks | 71 | |
| 6626547922 | Site | The absolute location of a place | 72 | |
| 6626553857 | Situation | Relative Location | 73 | |
| 6626569385 | Slum | a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | 74 | |
| 6626573187 | Southwest Asia City (McGee) Model | | 75 | |
| 6626581760 | World City | Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce. | 76 | |
| 6626584021 | Zoning Laws | Legal restrictions on land use that determines what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas. In the United States, areas are most commonly divided into separate zones of residential, retail, or industrial use. | 77 |
