What's a city?
This is the process by which the population of cities grows, whether in number or in percentage.
What is urbanization?
This is a model that displays the type of city that grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings.
What is concentric zone model?
Poor neighborhoods that crop up as a result of a shortage of housing, often in LDC's as a result of population increase and immigration from rural areas to the urbanized area and usually lacking services.
What is squatter settlement?
The process of subdivision of houses by absentee landlords into smaller dwellings for successive waves of lower-income people.
What is filtering?
A characteristic of U.S. suburbs, this is the progressive spread of development over the landscape.
What is sprawl?
In the U.S., this is the central city and the surrounding built-up suburbs.
What is urbanized area?
A model which displays the type of city that develops in a series of sectors, originally defined by environmental factors or even by mere chance, that expand outwards in wedges from the center.
What is sector model?
The drawing of lines by banks on maps to identify areas in which they will refuse to loan money. It's technically illegal, but it is still difficult for families to acquire the funds to fix up houses in run-down neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
A program under which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, and build new roads and utilities before turning it over to private developers or private agencies to put in new buildings or services.
What is urban renewal?
What is greenbelt?
This is an urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000, including the county within which the city is located and any adjacent counties with high population density and percentage of residents working in the central city's county.
What is metropolitan statistical area (MSA)?
This is a model that displays the type of city that includes more than one center around which activities revolve.
What is multiple nuclei model?
A term used to refer to inner-city residents that are stuck in cycle of economic and social problems like unemployment, substance abuse, illiteracy, and crime.
What is underclass?
A model that claims that North American urban areas consist of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
What is peripheral model?
The four consecutive 15-minute periods that have the heaviest traffic.
What is rush (or peak) hour?
This is an urbanized area with 10,000 to 50,000 inhabitants, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties with ties to the city.
What is micropolitan statistical area?
This is a division of an urban area that contains approximately 5,000 residents and corresponds where possible to neighborhood boundaries.
What is census tract?
A project reserved for low-income households that is managed by an authority established by the local government and subsidized by the federal government. It is also where the somewhat derogatory term "the projects" comes from.
What is public housing?
Originally suburban residences to house those worked in the central city, they have become nodes of consumer and business services all their own.
What is edge city?
A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the various local governments in the region. Indianapolis and Miami both have the consolidated type, but others have the federation system.
What is council of government?
The process of legally adding land area to a city.
What is annexation?
Prevents mixing of land uses within the same district.
What is zoning ordinance?
The process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing, pointed out by critics to price out poor people who were already living in the area.
What is gentrification?
A schema which displays the number of houses per unit of land diminishing as distance from the center city increases. In American cities, over time this has created a ripple effect.
What is density gradient?
A term for legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
What is smart growth?