9363149787 | Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States | 0 | |
9363149788 | CBD (central business district) | the traditional core of the city where office buildings and retail shops tend to be concentrated. | 1 | |
9363149789 | Conurbation | an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | 2 | |
9363149790 | Density Gradient | The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. | 3 | |
9363149791 | Edge City | suburb that develops into a city complete with all of the goods and services of a city. | 4 | |
9363149792 | Entrepôt | a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties | 5 | |
9363149793 | filtering (filter process) | A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner to abandonment. | 6 | |
9363149794 | Galactic city | mini edge city that is connected to another city by beltways or highways | 7 | |
9363149795 | Gentrification | The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residentes | 8 | |
9363149796 | Greenbelts | an area of open land around a city, on which building is restricted. | 9 | |
9363149797 | Latin American City Model | globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. In the center of the Griffin-Ford | 10 | |
9363149798 | Megalopolis | a very large, heavily populated city or urban complex. | 11 | |
9363149799 | Multiple Nuclei Model | Harris and Ullman, the layout of a city has multiple centers for different activities | 12 | |
9363149800 | MSA (micropolitan statistical area) | smaller urban areas that the census has designated to include in part of their measure | 13 | |
9363149801 | New Urbanism | developing entire villages and promote mixed-use neighborhoods within existing cities | 14 | |
9363149802 | Peripheral Model | consists of an inner city surrounded by growing suburbs | 15 | |
9363149803 | public housing project | Housing owned by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses | 16 | |
9363149804 | Redlining | drawing of lines on a map to identify areas in which banks will refuse to loan money | 17 | |
9363149805 | scattered settlements | a dispersed settlement pattern is where the buildings are spread out; ... a linear settlement pattern is where the buildings are built in lines | 18 | |
9363149806 | suburb | residential areas surrounding a city | 19 | |
9363149807 | sprawl | to spread out | 20 | |
9363149808 | Underclass | a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations | 21 | |
9363149809 | Urban Realms Model | Includes a CBD, central city, new downtown, and suburban downtown. | 22 | |
9363149810 | urban renewal | the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums | 23 | |
9363149811 | world city | dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy | 24 | |
9363149812 | zone in transition | An area that is either becoming more rural or more urban | 25 | |
9363149813 | Zoning | A planning tool used to separate industry and business from residential neighborhoods. | 26 | |
9363149814 | Sector Model | Hoyt, divides citiy into 5 sections extending outward from the CBD | 27 | |
9363149815 | Concentric Zone Model | A city grows outward from a central are in a series of concentric rings. | 28 | |
9363149816 | Scattered site | Publicly funded affordable low density units scattered around diverse middle class neighborhoods | 29 |
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