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What is a megacity?
City with more than 10 million people.
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What is concentric zone model?
A model of the internal structure of cities in which socioeconomic groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
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What is public housing
Housing owned by the government in the us it is rented to low income residents.
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What is underclass
A group in society prevented in participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics
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What is site and situation factors
Site: landforms, climate,
Situation: the location relative to its surroundings |
What is an edge city?
Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment.
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What is multiple nuclei model?
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around multiple central business districts of activities.
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What is clustered rural settlements
an agricultural- based community in which a number of families. live in close proximity to each other, with fields. surrounding the collection of houses and farm. buildings.
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What is gentrification
Infiltration of middle class citizens into low income areas, renovations and raise in tax and cost of living pushing the lower class citizens out
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What is central place
A market for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
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What is a global/world city?
Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce.
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What is peripheral model?
A model of Northern American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
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What is squatter settlements
An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences in a land they do not own
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What is urban sprawl
The process of urban areas expanding outwards usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertility agricultural land
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What is rank size rule
The largest city in a given country will have of the population to on of the largest city in the country
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What is zoning ordinances?
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
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What is gravity model
Holds the interaction between two places can be determining the product r of the population of both places
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What is urban renewal
Program in which cities identify blighted inner cities neighborhoods
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What is redlining
The practice of banks refusing loans to communities deemed “too risky”.
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What is density gradient
A sprain variation in density over an area
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What is new urbanism?
Urban planning policies attempting to make urban living more appealing to reduce urban sprawl.
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What is sector model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged and around a series of sectors or wedges radiating out from the central business district
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What is central business district
An area delineated by the us bureau of the census for which statistics and published in urban area
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What is blockbusting?
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that minorities will soon move into their neighborhood, and a resale of these homes to minorities at a high cost.
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What is microplitan statistical area
An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants
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