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9363149787AnnexationLegally adding land area to a city in the United States0
9363149788CBD (central business district)the traditional core of the city where office buildings and retail shops tend to be concentrated.1
9363149789Conurbationan aggregation or continuous network of urban communities2
9363149790Density GradientThe change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.3
9363149791Edge Citysuburb that develops into a city complete with all of the goods and services of a city.4
9363149792Entrepôta port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported without paying import duties5
9363149793filtering (filter process)A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner to abandonment.6
9363149794Galactic citymini edge city that is connected to another city by beltways or highways7
9363149795GentrificationThe rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residentes8
9363149796Greenbeltsan area of open land around a city, on which building is restricted.9
9363149797Latin American City Modelglobalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. In the center of the Griffin-Ford10
9363149798Megalopolisa very large, heavily populated city or urban complex.11
9363149799Multiple Nuclei ModelHarris and Ullman, the layout of a city has multiple centers for different activities12
9363149800MSA (micropolitan statistical area)smaller urban areas that the census has designated to include in part of their measure13
9363149801New Urbanismdeveloping entire villages and promote mixed-use neighborhoods within existing cities14
9363149802Peripheral Modelconsists of an inner city surrounded by growing suburbs15
9363149803public housing projectHousing owned by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses16
9363149804Redliningdrawing of lines on a map to identify areas in which banks will refuse to loan money17
9363149805scattered settlementsa dispersed settlement pattern is where the buildings are spread out; ... a linear settlement pattern is where the buildings are built in lines18
9363149806suburbresidential areas surrounding a city19
9363149807sprawlto spread out20
9363149808Underclassa group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations21
9363149809Urban Realms ModelIncludes a CBD, central city, new downtown, and suburban downtown.22
9363149810urban renewalthe clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums23
9363149811world citydominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy24
9363149812zone in transitionAn area that is either becoming more rural or more urban25
9363149813ZoningA planning tool used to separate industry and business from residential neighborhoods.26
9363149814Sector ModelHoyt, divides citiy into 5 sections extending outward from the CBD27
9363149815Concentric Zone ModelA city grows outward from a central are in a series of concentric rings.28
9363149816Scattered sitePublicly funded affordable low density units scattered around diverse middle class neighborhoods29

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