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9655104386	annexation	The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.	0
9655105240	carbon capture and storage	the removal of carbon from fossil-fuel combustion and storage of the carbon, usually underground	1
9655107097	census tract	small districs used by the US Census Bureau to survey the population	2
9655108679	central business district	The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered.	3
9655110901	central city	the urban area that is not suburban	4
9655112698	combined statistical area	in the US, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns	5
9655114239	concentric zone model		6
9655116184	core based statistical area	in the US, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas	7
9655116185	density gradient	the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery	8
9655117897	edge city	a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area	9
9655117898	filtering	a process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment	10
9655121583	gentrification	the rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents	11
9655121584	informal settlement		12
9655126167	megalopolis		13
9655130475	metropolitan statistical area	7) In the United States, which of the following definitions of a city covers the largest land area?	14
9655133431	micropolitan statistical area	a city with only 10,000 inhabitants in its core urban area	15
9655137427	multiple nuclei model	a city is a complex structure that includes more than one center around which activities revolve	16
9655138677	peripheral model	a model of North American urban areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan statistical areas	17
9655140274	primary census area		18
9655140295	public housing	a housing development that is publicly funded and administered for low-income families	19
9655141943	redlining	a practice in which banks refuse to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations	20
9655141944	rush hour	the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work	21
9655143480	sector model	an economic model that depicts a city as a series of pie-shaped wedges	22
9655143481	smart growth	legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland	23
9655145552	social area analysis		24
9655145553	sprawl		25
9655146877	suburb	a residential district located on the outskirts of a city	26
9655147217	sustainable development	using natural resources at a rate that does not deplete them	27
9655149339	underclass	a group of people for whom poverty persists year after year and across generations	28
9655149340	urban area	a geographical area constituting a city or town	29
9655150620	urban cluster	In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants.	30
9655150621	urbanized area	In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs.	31
9655153160	zoning ordinance	a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community	32