Cities Models Settlements Social Extra
100
What is a megacity?
City with more than 10 million people.
100
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.
100
What is public housing
Housing owned by the government in the us it is rented to low income residents.
100
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
100
What is site and situation factors
Site: landforms, climate,
Situation: the location relative to its surroundings
200
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.
200
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.
200
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.
200
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
200
What is central place
A market for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area
300
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.
300
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.
300
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
300
What is urban sprawl
The process of urban areas expanding outwards usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertility agricultural land
300
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
400
What is zoning ordinances?
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
400
What is gravity model
Holds the interaction between two places can be determining the product r of the population of both places
400
What is urban renewal
Program in which cities identify blighted inner cities neighborhoods
400
What is redlining
The practice of banks refusing loans to communities deemed “too risky”.
400
What is density gradient
A sprain variation in density over an area
500
What is new urbanism?
Urban planning policies attempting to make urban living more appealing to reduce urban sprawl.
500
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
500
What is central business district
An area delineated by the us bureau of the census for which statistics and published in urban area
500
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.
500
What is microplitan statistical area
An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants






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