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| legally adding land area to a city in the US | ||
| an area delineated by the US Bureau of the 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. | ||
| a cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the US | ||
| the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. | ||
| a large node of office and retail activites on the edge of an urban area | ||
| a process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. | ||
| a process of converting an urban neighbohood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. | ||
| a ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area. | ||
| in the US, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city. | ||
| an urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, and adjacent counties tied to the city. | ||
| a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. | ||
| a model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. | ||
| housing owned by the government; in the US, it is rented to low-income residents, and the rents are set at 30 percent of the familie's 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 strucutre of citeis in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD) | ||
| legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and 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 material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. | ||
| an increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. | ||
| in the US, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs. | ||
| program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from the private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilites, and turn the land over to private developers. | ||
| a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of the development of a community. |
