Urban models
This model describes a city growing outward in rings.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
The area of a city where retail and business are concentrated.
What is the CBD (Central Business District)?
The movement of people from cities to suburbs.
What is suburbanization?
Tall buildings and skyscrapers are most commonly found here.
What is the CBD?
When wealthier people move into a poor neighborhood and raise property values.
What is gentrification?
This model says cities develop in wedges along transportation routes.
What is the Sector Model?
A city’s total population and land area.
What is urbanized area?
Low-density development spreading outward from the city.
What is urban sprawl?
This term describes the outer boundary of a city’s built-up area.
What is the urban fringe?
Government-created housing for low-income residents.
What is public housing?
This model says cities have multiple centers instead of one CBD.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
The number of people per unit of land.
What is density?
A suburb outside a city where many residents commute into the city for work.
What is a commuter zone?
Factories and industrial areas are often located here because land is cheaper.
What is the urban periphery?
A group of people without permanent housing.
Who are the homeless?
This model describes Latin American cities with a wealthy spine and squatter settlements on the edge.
What is the Latin American City Model?
The spread of cities and towns into nearby rural areas.
What is urbanization?
This is when wealthy residents move back into the city from the suburbs.
What is reurbanization?
This is the zone of transition where factories and poorer housing are often found.
What is the inner city?
When poor people are forced to leave due to rising rent and property values.
What is displacement?
This city model includes a central market, elite sector, and peripheral squatter settlements, often seen in Africa.
What is the African City Model?
A city’s legally defined boundary that may include suburbs.
What is the city proper?
Areas outside cities that still have urban characteristics, like malls and subdivisions.
What is the urban fringe?
This term describes areas with offices and businesses outside the downtown core.
What are edge cities?
Housing built illegally on land not owned by residents, common in developing countries.
What is squatter settlement?