AP Flashcards

6871809571	city	Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as municipality	0
6871826517	urbanized area	the US, in urban area with atleast 50,000 inhabitants	1
6871833714	Urban Cluster	in the US, an urban area with between 22,500 and 50,000 inhabitants	2
6871843072	Metropolitan statistical Area	In the US an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population the country with in which the city isolated, the adjacent countries meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to a central city	3
6871887144	Micropolitan statistical area	An urbanized area of between 100,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the country in which it is located, and adjacent countries tied to the city.	4
6871908821	Core based statistical areas	In the US, any MSA and usa	5
6871919070	Combined statistical areas	in the US, 2 or more contiguous CBSA's tied together by commuting patterns	6
6871942224	Primary Statistical areas	in the US, any CSA, any MSA not included in a CSA or any USA not included in a CSA	7
6871957724	Central business district	area of a a city where retail and office activities are clustered	8
6871965022	Concentric zone model	model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series	9
6871969472	sector model	`a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arrange around a sense of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from central business district	10
6872022130	Multiple nuclei model	model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities	11
6872034039	edge cities	a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area	12
6872041350	social area analysis	statistical analysis used to identify where ppl of similar living standards, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyle live with in an urban area	13
6872058398	census tracts	an area delinted by the US Burea of the census for which statistic are published, in urban, census tracts corresponds roughly to neighborhoods	14
6872070434	informal Settlement	an area with in a city in a less developed country in which ppl illegally establish residences on land they don't own or rent and erect homelands structures	15
6872079933	Suburb	residential or commercial area situated with in an urban area but outside the central city	16
6872088756	annexation	legally adding land area to a city in the US	17
6872091659	smart growth	legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland	18
6872099269	sprawl	development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area	19
6872108657	peripheral model	model of worth american urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring rd	20
6872122478	density gradient	change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery	21
6872130702	Megalopolis	continuous urban complex in the northern eastern US	22
6872135914	zoning ordinance	law that limits the permitted uses of land and max density of development in a communtiy	23
6872141560	rush hour	4 consecutive 15 min periods in the morning and evening with heaviest volumes of traffic	24
6872154081	underclass	a group in society prevented from participating in material benefits of a more developed society bc of a variety of social and economic characteristics	25
6872172581	filtering	process of change in use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment	26
6872185444	relining	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 the lines	27
6872169933	gentrification	a process of converting an urban neighborhood from predominately low income, renter-occupied area to a predominately middle-class, owner occupied area	28
6872229641	public housing	Government owned housing rented to low income individual, with rents set at 30% of the tenant's income	29
6872241379	sustainable development	Development that meets the needs of the present with out comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs	30