Chapter 12 - 13 Human Geo.

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

A theory that explains that distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups spatially arranged in a city of rings

An extended urban area; usually consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs or one or more cities

The change in density in an urban area from the center of the periphery

A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area

A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

A mini edge city that is connected to another city by the beltways or highways

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

A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of urban areas

The area surround a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services

Combines elements of Latin America culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones

The area surround a central place form which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services

A term used to designate the large coalescing supercities that are forming in diverse parts of the world

In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 populations, the county within which the city is located

An urbanized area between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants

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

Outlined by a group of architects, urban planners, and developers from over 20 countries, and urban design that calls for development

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

The largest settlement in a country

Housing owned by the government

A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase of improve property within the boundaries

Site in which dwellings are dispersed throughout the city rather than clustered in a larger project

An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residencies on land they do not own or rent

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

A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city

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

A group of society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of economic characteristics

A spatial generalization of the large, late-twentieth century city in the United States

Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, etc;

Dominant City in terms of it’s role in the global political economy. Not the worlds biggest city in terms of population or industrial output

An area that is either become more rural or more urban

A law that limits the permitted uses of lands and maximum density of development in a community