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| 643091131 | Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States. | |
| 643091132 | Census tract | An area delineated by the U.S. bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods. | |
| 643091133 | Concentric zone model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. | |
| 643091134 | Council of government | A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States. | |
| 643091135 | Density gradient | The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. | |
| 643091136 | Edge city | The large node of office and retail activiteis on the edge of an urban area. | |
| 643091137 | Filtering | A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. | |
| 643091138 | Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. | |
| 643091139 | Greenbelt | A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area. | |
| 643091140 | Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) | In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the country within which the city is located, and adjacent countries meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city. | |
| 643091141 | Micropolitan statistical area | An urbanized area between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city. | |
| 643091142 | Multiple nuclei model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. | |
| 643091143 | 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. | |
| 643091144 | Public housing | Housing owned by the government; in the United States, it is rented to low-income residents, and the rents are set at 30 percent of the familes' incomes. | |
| 643091145 | Redlining | A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries. | |
| 643091146 | Rush hour | (peak hour) The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic. | |
| 643091147 | 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 districs (CBD). | |
| 643091148 | Smart growth | Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and to perserve farmland. | |
| 643091149 | Sprawl | Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing bulit-up areas. | |
| 643091150 | Squatter settlements | An area within a city in a less developed country in which poeple illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. | |
| 643091151 | Underclass | A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. | |
| 643091152 | Urbanized area | In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs. | |
| 643091153 | Urban renewal | Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utitlies, and turn the land over to private developers. | |
| 643091154 | Zoning ordinance | A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. | |
| 643091155 | Central Business District (CBD) | The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered | |
| 643091156 | Combined Statsitical Area (CSA) | In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by communting patterns. | |
| 643091157 | Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) | In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas. | |
| 643091158 | Social Area Analysis | Statisitcal analysis used to identify where people of similar living statands, ethnic background, and life style live within an urban area. | |
| 643091159 | City | An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit. | |
| 643091160 | Primary Census Statistical Area (PCSA) | In the United States, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas. |
