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| 6563062940 | Suburb | a residential or commercial area located within an urban area but outside the city area | 0 | |
| 6563129277 | Annexation | the process of legally adding land to a city | 1 | |
| 6563131758 | Smart Growth | legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland | 2 | |
| 6563143527 | Sprawl | development of new housing at relatively low density and at locations that don't touch the existing build-up area | 3 | |
| 6564076040 | Peripheral Model | model created by Chauncey Harris, which describes how an urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road |  | 4 |
| 6564082553 | Density Gradient | the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery | 5 | |
| 6567746468 | Megalopolis | a Several, metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large, sprawling urban complex. | 6 | |
| 6567755025 | Segregation of Social Classes Segregation of Land Uses | Two Types of Segregation | 7 | |
| 6568362973 | Zoning Ordinance | a law that limits the permitted use of land and maximum density of development in a community | 8 | |
| 6569033113 | Rush Hour | the four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest amount of traffic | 9 | |
| 6578687311 | Underclass | a group in society that is prevented from taking part in material benefits of a more developed society, due to never ending cycle of social and economic hardships. | 10 | |
| 6578814808 | Filtering | the process of change in the use of a house, from a single-family owner occupancy to abandonment | 11 | |
| 6578963740 | Redlining | a process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within those lines (race is rooted in its intentions) | 12 | |
| 6579092411 | Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. | 13 | |
| 6579094465 | Public housing | housing owned by the government that is rented to low-income individuals, and the rents set at 30% of the tenant's income. | 14 | |
| 6579263775 | Sustainable development | development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. | 15 | |
| 6579298611 | Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) | the process of capturing waste carbon dioxide, transporting it to a storage site, an depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally underground. | 16 | |
| 6608960237 | Central City | the urban area that is not suburban; generally, the older or original city that is surrounded by newer suburbs | 17 | |
| 6689505103 | Urban City | consists of a central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs | 18 | |
| 6689513955 | urbanized area | an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants | 19 | |
| 6689516318 | urban cluster | an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants | 20 | |
| 6689527999 | metropolitan statistical area (MSA) | In the United States, 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. | 21 | |
| 6689548402 | micropolitan statistical areas (uSA) | an urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties tied to the city | 22 | |
| 6689566641 | core-based statistical area (CBSA) | any one MSA or uSA | 23 | |
| 6689578470 | combined statistical area (CSA) | two or more contiguous CBAS tied together by commuting patterns | 24 | |
| 6689587798 | primary statistical area (PSA) | a CSA, an MSA not included in a CSA, or a uSA not included in a CSA | 25 | |
| 6689771380 | central business city (CBD) | the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered | 26 | |
| 6689861656 | concentric zone model | created by E. W. Burgees, shows a city growing outwards from a central area in a series of concentric rings. |  | 27 |
| 6689886241 | sector model | developed by Homer Hoyt, a city develops in a series of sectors. |  | 28 |
| 6689896142 | multiple nuclei model | developed by C.D. Harris and E.L. Ullman, a city has a complex structure that includes more than one center around which activities revolve |  | 29 |
| 6689903148 | edge city | a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area | 30 | |
| 6689915737 | social area analysis | statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area | 31 | |
| 6689922864 | census tract | an area delineated by the US Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods. | 32 | |
| 6692454633 | Informal settlement | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent | 33 |
