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| Legally adding land area to a city in the United States. | ||
| An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of hte Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods. | ||
| A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. | ||
| In the United States, two or more adjacent metropolitan statistical areas with overlapping commuting patterns. | ||
| A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States. | ||
| The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. | ||
| A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. | ||
| A process of change in the use of a house, from a single family owner occupancy to abandonment | ||
| A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area | ||
| A ring of land maintained as parks, agricultural, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area | ||
| In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county withing whica the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indication a functional connection to the central city. | ||
| A model of the internal structure of cities which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. | ||
| A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounding by large suburban residential and business area tied together by a beltway or ring road. | ||
| In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area exceeding 1 million population located within a consolidates metropolitan statistical area. | ||
| 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 families' incomes. | ||
| A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries. | ||
| The four consecutive 15 minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic | ||
| 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 CBD. | ||
| Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and a preserve farmland. | ||
| Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers. | ||
| An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | ||
| In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built up suburbs | ||
| A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |
