Chapter 13 Vocab. Urban Patterns

	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.