AMSCO Unit 6 KC#2 (6.5-6.7) Terms 59-97

Concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei models.

The idea that portions of an urban area-regions, or zones, within the city-have a specific and distinct purposes.

A vital part of an urban model, which is the commercial heart of a city.

Explains agricultural land use, just as it helps explain land use in central business districts.

Provide areas suitable for the operation and protection of a range of larger-scale commercial and industrial businesses and processes.

When commercial interests benefit each other.

Areas where people live.

Describes a city as a series of rings that surrounds a central business district.

Describes sectors of land use for low-, medium-, and high-income housing.

This model suggested that functional zonation occurred around multiple centers, or nodes.

A variant of the multiple-nuclei model, describes suburban neighborhoods surrounding an inner city and served by nodes of commercial activity along a ring road or beltway.

Model represents a city with growth independent of the CBD that is traditionally connected to the central city by means of an arterial highway or interstate.

A mix of public services and private firms, including a robust body of middle class and lower middle class public sector workers.

The central feature of an Islamic city, such as a mosque, a bazaar, or a citadel that are centered on the principles of Islam.

Often used to describe Latin American cities.

Neighborhoods marked by extreme poverty, homelessness, and lawlessness. Area of poorly built housing.

Characterized by their growth, urban macrocephaly, informality and colonial heritage.

Defined as a low residential area, which has developed without legal right to the land or permission from the concerned authorities to build.

Focus on modern cities, often former colonial zone, and these cities have a government zone and have a commercial zone dominated by foreign merchants and ambassadors.

Regulations that define how property in specific geographic regions may be used.

A process of promoting growth and controlling change in land use.

As one moves farther from the inner city, population and housing-unit density declines, and types of housing change.

A slang term that describes a large, often opulent or ostentatious, mass-produced house.

Process where houses pass from one social group to another.

Refers to the process by which one social or ethnic group gradually replaces another through filtering.

The process of increasing the residential density of an area by replacing open space and vacant housing with residences.

Stores include Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowe's. Each of these retailers has large physical locations and offers a wide selection of products and services for purchase.

The movement of commerce out of cities to suburbs where rents are cheaper and commutes for employees are shorter.

Residential land use is how land is used for housing purposes. It reflects a city’s culture, t.echnology and development

Critical to the functioning of any city, the facilities and systems that serve the population. Any city has many elements of this.

This term refers to the local government of a city or town and the services it provides.

The process of adding land to a city's legally defined territory.

The act of legally joining together to form a new city.

These communities usually lack a true CBD.

Populated regions that do not fall within the legal boundary of any city or municipality.

Infrastructure varies in countries depending on their level of development, resources, geography, culture, and policies.

A solution to moving people around an urban area with the use of buses, subways, light rail, and trains that are operated by a government agency.

Reducing the density of people and employment.

In the USA, wealthy people are more likely to live in the suburbs and are attracted by spacious homes, large backyards, clear air, and where population densities are low. In contrast, in Europe and Canada, wealthy people have traditionally chosen to live in densely populated cities. They have valued short commutes to work and easy access to concerts, plays, and other forms of entertainment.