Urban Models
This urban model features a central business district with sectors radiating outward along transportation lines.
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
Rapid urban growth in developing countries often results from this type of migration.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
A neighborhood that has experienced disinvestment and neglect, often marked by poverty and deteriorating housing.
What is a ghetto?
Cities that serve as command and control centers of the global economy.
What are global cities (world cities)?
Public systems such as water supply, sewage, and transportation.
What is infrastructure?
This model proposes that cities develop in a series of concentric rings around a CBD.
What is the Burgess Concentric Zone Model?
This term refers to the spread of urban development into surrounding rural land.
What is urban sprawl?
The process of renovating older urban neighborhoods, often leading to rising property values and displacement.
What is gentrification?
The top three global cities commonly cited in AP Human Geography.
What are New York, London, and Tokyo?
Development that meets present needs without compromising future generations.
What is sustainable development?
This model explains cities as having multiple centers of activity rather than one CBD.
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model?
When wealthier residents move from cities to suburbs, leaving lower-income residents in the urban core.
What is suburbanization?
Government policies that denied loans or insurance to residents in certain neighborhoods based on race.
What is redlining?
A country that follows the rank-size rule will likely NOT have this type of city dominating its political and economic systems.
What is a primate city?
A city designed to reduce car dependence and encourage walking and public transit.
What is a smart growth city?
This model has a spine extending from the CBD with elite housing along it.
What is the Latin American cities model?
A large, rapidly growing suburb that functions independently of the central city and often rivals it economically.
What is a boomburb?
Informal settlements found on the edges of many developing world cities.
What are squatter settlements (or favelas)?
A city with 25 million people but little global financial influence is a ______, not necessarily a global city.
What is a metacity?
This urban design movement promotes walkability, mixed housing, and community-oriented planning.
What is New Urbanism?
This model describes cities as having three distinct CBDs and reflects colonial influence.
What is the African City Model?
A legally defined line drawn around a city to limit suburban sprawl and protect surrounding farmland.
What is an Urban Growth Boundary?
Mid-20th century urban renewal programs often demolished low-income neighborhoods to build highways and commercial development, unintentionally accelerating this long-term urban process.
What is white flight --> suburbanization?
The spread of identical shopping malls, chain restaurants, and business districts across continents reflects this cultural effect of globalization.
What is placelessness?
Redevelopment of contaminated industrial land for new economic use.
What are brownfields?