Urban Growth and decline
Urban Models
City Systems
Challenges and solutions
100

These are fast growing residential areas on the outer edge of major cities. 

What are Exburbs


100

In this model a city's land use radiates out in rings from the CBD

What is the concentric zone model 


100

This theory predicts the size and spacing of cities using range and threshold 

What is the central place theory 


100

This term described development that meets today needs without compromising the future

What is Urban Sustainability 

200

This area combines a city and its surrounding suburbs into one economic unit 

What is a metropolitan area

200

This model includes multiple centers of activity 

What is the multiple-nuclei model 
200

according to this rule the second largest city is 1/2 the size of the largest, than 1/3 etc 

What is the rank size rule 


200

These laws regulate land use and can separate commercial and industrial areas  

What are zoning ordinances 

300

This is a phenomenon when a city experiences a population increase after years of decline  

What is reurbanization
300

A Latin American city might include a wealthy corridor called this

What is a Commercial Spine 

300

Global powerhouses such as New York and London 

World cities 

300

A redevelopment strategy that reuses vacant lots within a city

What is Urban infill
400

These suburban cities have over 100 thousand people but lack a major downtown

What are Boomburgs


400

This model represents modern car based societies where edge cities are around highways

What is the galactic city model 


 
400

This is when the largest city in a country is much larger than all the others 

What is a primate city 

400
This occurs when wealthy newcomers move into formerly low income houses in turn raising home prices 
What is gentrification
500
This is the inverse of urbanization as people move away from cities into rural areas

What is counter-urbanization 

500

These areas, often undesirable, are located far from CBD and house the poor  

What are shanty towns 


500

This type of city serves as a major point of economic, cultural or political interaction 

What is a nodal city


500

This practice once denied loans to minority neighborhoods  

Redlining 

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