City Models
This city model includes a Central Business District and zones of development that resemble concentric circles.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
This is a settlement with a population of more than 50,000 people.
What is a city?
This is an area with businesses and government buildings, also known as "downtown".
What is Central Business District?
This is lost as a result of urbanization and suburbanization, making food production harder.
What is agricultural/ farm land?
Regulations that determine how land in urban areas can be used.
What are zoning regulations?
In this model, development zones extend outward from the CBD in wedge-like shapes.
What is the sector model?
This settlement is similar to a village, however it does not have a church (could also be unincorporated).
What is a Hamlet?
A process of investment into deteriorating neighborhoods to attract new homeowners and businesses.
What is gentrification?
As more people migrate to an urban area, this increases due to waste and use of vehicles.
What is polution?
The physical characteristics of a location (ex. climate, foliage, landscape) is this.
What is site?
In this model, the city is surrounded by a roadway known as a "beltway".
ex. Atlanta
What is Galactic City Model?
This is an area of between 2500 and 20,000 people with a distinct economic identity and effective government?
What is a town?
The process by which banks determined the availability of home loans in the early to mid 1900s.
What is Redlining?
Rural areas are more likely to have sustainability challenges that affect these systems.
What is : education, health care, public transit?
A city with a global impact in economics, politics, or culture.
What is a world city?
This model has several different commercial zones located within and around residential and industrial zones.
What is Multiple-Nuclei Model?
This is an area of 500-2500 people that is just slightly larger than a Hamlet.
What is a village?
This is a city that has at least double the population of the next largest city in a given country and is the most influential.
What is a primate city?
This is the most common reason for the eviction crisis.
A ranking of settlements based on their size and importance in a region or country.
hint: Pyramid
What is urban hierarchy?
This model has a high crime rate caused by poorer residential zones being located around areas of greater economic success.
Ex. Mexico City
What is the Latin American City Model?
This is a city of more than 20 million people.
ex. Mexico City or New York.
What is a Metacity?
When a population migrates outward from an Urban area, resulting in this urban area expanding.
What is Urban sprawl?
When citizens of cities turn to producing food within their communities using creative methods to cut down on transport costs and increase quality, they are performing this.
What is Urban agriculture?
Business practices voluntarily adopted by the producers agricultural commodities & hand-made crafts that are designed to advance many economic, social, & environmental goals are:
What are Fair Trade Practices?