Sectors
Form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specific task to preform repeatedly
What is Fordism?
A metropolitan area with a population higher than 20 million people.
What is a metacity?
This model has five rings expanding outward from the Central Business District (CBD). Older homes in the inner ring and newer housing in the outer ring.
What is the Burgess Concentric-Zone model?
What is Urban Sprawl?
This was one of the factors that started white flight. Realtors scared white owners into selling their homes at low prices to agents, who in turn resold the house to black homeowners at a high profit.
What is blockbusting?
The portion of the economy concerned with the direct extraction of materials from Earth's surface, generally through agriculture, although sometimes by mining, fishing, and forestry.
What is the Primary Sector?
An area that has a population higher than 10 million
What is a megacity?
This model is a series of sectors where certain activities gravitate to a certain part of the city based on environmental or economic factors.
What is the Hoyt Sector model?
This is an area of land where development is prohibited and land is left untouched to prevent sprawl.
What is a greenbelt?
This is the redevelopment of land within a city to address urban decay.
What is Urban Renewal?
The portion of the economy concerned with manufacturing useful products through processing, transforming, and assembling raw materials
What is Secondary Sector?
An urban area located on the outskirts of a city, traditionally connected to a major road way.
What is an edge city?
This model has multiple centers and complex structures that have certain activities that gravitate towards certain nodes in a city. Some nodes attract certain people and activities and repel others.
What are Smart Growth Policies?
This is when upper middle class residents move into a low income neighborhood and renovate the area raising the property value forcing low income residents out.
What is Gentrification?
The portion of the economy concerned with transportation, communications, and utilities, sometimes extended to the provision of all goods and services to people in exchange for payment.
What is Tertiary Sector?
An area outside of a suburban area with a connection to the metro area, defined with low housing density and growing community.
What is Exurbs?
This model is based on the multiple nuclei model and focuses on transportation systems which allows a beltway to surround the urban area with multiple edge cities on the outside.
What is the Galactic (Peripheral) city model?
An urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating walkable neighborhoods that contain a large range of goods/services and homes.
What is New Urbanism?
This is a settlement that is made of cheap materials not up to the standard of the city and on land that the occupant does not even own.
What is a Squatter Settlement?
The portion of the economy concerned with the collection, processing, and manipulation of information and capital.
What is Quaternary Sector?
A suburban city that is rapidly growing, often as large as a city with a suburban feel.
What are boomburbs?
This model fits with the Sub Saharan African city model due to ancient times that were heavily influenced by colonialism.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
These are buses, trains, subways, and other forms of transportation that charge set fares, run on fixed routes, and are available to the public.
What is public transportation?
These are areas that were previously developed land that is no longer being used and may contain contaminated materials, or a contaminated plot of land due to the previous occupant. Usually ties to factories or industrial type areas.
What are Brownfields?