Urban Models
The model featuring a spine, mall, and periferico.
Latin American city model
City expansion into rural areas.
Urban sprawl
Settlements on the outskirts of developing world cities.
Squatter settlements
The downtown commercial core of the city.
CBD (Central Business District)
Neighborhoods with limited access to affordable groceries.
Food Desert
This is the most segregated city in the USA.
Milwaukee
The model in which cities grow outward along transportation corridors.
Hoyt sector model
Renovation of inner city areas by higher income residents.
Gentrification
Dividing land into zones for specific land uses.
Zoning
A cluster of offices and retail near major roads can form this type of city.
Edge city
A city that dominates a country’s political and economic systems.
Primate city
A young adult living in a city with a large salary.
Yuppie
The model showing cities with several independent nodes of activity.
Multiple nuclei model
The shift of industrial jobs away from inner cities.
Deindustrialization
Refusing loans to certain neighborhoods based on race or income.
Redlining
Theory stating firms choose locations that minimize costs.
Least cost theory
A city with more than 10 million people is called _____ and a city with more than 20 million people is called _____.
Megacity; Metacity
Name the three world cities we used as example in class.
London, New York, Tokyo
The model showing urban land use in rings around the CBD.
Burgess concentric zone model
When redevelopment pushes out lower income residents.
Displacement
Open land preserved around a city to limit growth.
Greenbelt
The geographic area dominated by a city’s economic influence.
Hinterland
The uneven distribution of infrastructure and services between neighborhoods.
Spatial Inequallity
This is the largest city in the word, overtaking Tokyo which held the title for decades.
Jakarta, Indonesia
The model describing edge cities forming around highways.
Galactic city model
Policies that encourage renewed investment in declining neighborhoods.
Urban revitalization
Large suburban areas of single family homes developed at once.
Subdivisions
Economic activity that benefits from businesses locating close together.
Agglomeration
Higher temperatures caused by excess pavement and reduced vegetation.
Heat island effect
This urban form, first identified by geographer Jean Gottmann in the mid twentieth century, describes a vast, functionally connected chain of metropolitan areas with continuous economic ties. It is now used to explain emerging transnational corridors such as the Hong Kong–Shenzhen–Guangzhou region and the Randstad in the Netherlands.
Megaregion