AP HUG VOCAB Urban Development

A small community or village.

Movement of people from rural areas to cities.

A residential district located on the outskirts of a city.

A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs.

The physical character of a place (climate, absolute location, unique features that allow for settlement)

The location of a place relative to other places (rivers, roads, connections, networks, telecommunication, relative location)

A market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

work that is performed for someone.

A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

The area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

The minimum number of people needed to support the service.

The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated.

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality.

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.

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 central business district (CBD).

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.

The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.

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.

To provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them.

A community's collection of basic businesses

An area characterized by a lack of affordable, fresh and nutritious food.

A former industrial center that has reinvented itself as a command center for global production.

City with more than 10 million people.

A city with a population over 20 million.

Multiple cities linked together (Great Lakes, S CA, TX triangle, 3 bananas)

A district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs.

Rapidly growing suburb cities.

Development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs (Seaside, FL and Pearl District, Oregon)

An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities.

The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

A pattern of settlement in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.

A business that sells its products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement (typically gives area a primary function - Nashville and music/entetainment)

A service that primarily meets the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

Jobs that shift money within a city (teachers, dry cleaners, janitors, fire department)

larger cities have a higher % of this to support larger infrastructural needs, and these jobs are typically the same in all places

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.

Little towns consisting of shacks.

A discriminatory real estate practice in North America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods.

Illegal practice of inducing homeowners to sell their properties by telling them that a certain people of a certain race, national origin or religion are moving into the area.

A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources.

Areas around cities where suburban land uses are restricted; contains new development within an urban core to prevent sprawl

A type of urban development that blends residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or industrial uses, where these functions are integrated (joined) together, by public transport/routeways for example.

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.

Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

The adding of a region to the territory of an existing political unit.

An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.

Division of a city into different regions or zones for certain purposes or functions.

A capital city created to develop an empty part of the country away from the core.

The study of the physical form and structure of urban places.