Urban Models & Patterns
This model shows a city growing outward in rings from the CBD.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
This term describes rapid suburban growth on the metropolitan fringe.
What is urban sprawl?
This illegal practice once denied loans to minority neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
This is the main commercial and business center of a city.
What is the CBD?
Cities like New York, London, and Tokyo are classified as this.
What are global cities?
This model argues that cities develop in wedge‑shaped sectors along transportation routes.
What is the Sector Model?
This type of suburb grows extremely fast and reaches 100,000+ residents without a traditional downtown.
What is a boomburb?
This process occurs when wealthier residents move into a neighborhood, raising property values.
What is gentrification?
This term describes the minimum number of customers needed to support a service.
What is threshold?
his term describes cities that dominate their national urban system.
What is a primate city?
This model suggests cities develop as a patchwork of specialized nodes.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
This term describes a suburban node with offices, retail, and entertainment.
What is an edge city?
This term describes the physical separation of groups by race, income, or ethnicity.
What is residential segregation?
This term describes the decline of retail in the CBD as stores move to suburbs.
What is retail decentralization?
Cities that serve as major centers for finance, culture, and global decision‑making are classified as this.
What are global cities?
This model explains the spatial layout of cities in less developed countries, including a “spine” leading to the CBD.
What is the Latin American City Model?
DAILY DOUBLE
This process occurs when older suburbs decline as newer suburbs pull residents outward, often leading to increased poverty in first‑ring suburbs.
What is filtering?
Real estate agents used this practice to scare white homeowners into selling their homes quickly by suggesting that minority families were moving into the neighborhood.
What is blockbusting?
This model explains how businesses compete for land closest to the CBD
What is the Bid‑Rent Curve?
DAILY DOUBLE
This concept describes compact, walkable, transit‑oriented development designed to reduce sprawl and improve sustainability.
What is smart growth?
This concept describes how land values decrease as distance from the CBD increases.
What is the Bid‑Rent Theory?
This term describes the merging of multiple metropolitan areas into one continuous urban region
What is a megalopolis?
Some cities require developers to include fixed‑rate affordable housing units in new construction to counter rising rents and prevent displacement. What is this type of policy called, and how does it attempt to reduce inequality?
What is inclusionary zoning, which increases the supply of stable, affordable units within new developments?
DAILY DOUBLE:
This term describes the redevelopment of former industrial waterfronts into mixed‑use districts.
What is urban revitalization?
This urban planning strategy aims to reduce environmental impact by promoting dense development, mixed land use, and transit accessibility in major global cities.
What is sustainable urban design?