Urban Models & Theories
This urban model is characterized by a port zone, which was the center of commerce in colonial times.
What is Southeast Asian City Model?
Metropolitan areas with populations of more than 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
Housing discrimination maintained by banks - starting in the 1930s, refusal to grant home loans in certain areas because of the ethnic or racial composition.
What is redlining?
Planned urban development that includes multiple uses such as retail, residential, educational, recreational, and businesses.
What is mixed-use development?
A city's downtown is also called the...
What is the Central business district?
This model is characterized by sectors developing along transportation routes.
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
One particular city is extremely large in terms of population size and economic, cultural and political influence.
What is a primate city?
Residential areas that are situated on undesirable/abandoned land that are built with found materials and not connected to city services.
What are squatter settlements?
Area of green space such as a park, agricultural land, or forest around an urban area intended to limit urban sprawl.
What is a greenbelt?
According to Harris and Ullman's multiple nuclei model, this develops at the outskirts of urban areas.
What are edge cities?
This model is characterized by 3 CBDs, and reflects the influence of colonialism throughout the continent.
What is African City Model?
Model that illustrates the relationship between population distribution in cities that are interconnected in the urban hierarchy. Typically indicates somewhat even development.
What is Rank-Size Rule?
Location where residents' access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance.
What is a food desert?
Large, abandoned industrial sites in central cities and suburbs, due to the shift from manufacturing to service-based economies. Typically unsafe and polluted.
What is a brownfield?
We often see this type of diffusion occur with world cities.
What is hierarchical diffusion?
Model that illustrates the spatial relationship/amount of interaction between locations of different sizes - flows of people trade, traffic, communication, etc.
What is the Gravity Model?
If a city follow's rank-size rule, and the population of the largest city is 12 million. The third largest is what size?
What is 4 million?
The process by which higher income residents or professional developers buy buildings in abandoned, blighted and/or industrial areas for low cost and renovate, restore or rebuild.
What is gentrification?
Utilization of mixed-use zoning policies in order to increase the use of already existing urban structures, create walkable and liveable cities while maintaining a sense of place and increasing residential housing density.
What is smart growth OR new urbanism?
Shopping malls, more single family housing, a reliance on the automobile are all representative of this geographic factor.
What are suburbs?
Theory that illustrates the hierarchical spatial patters/order of cities and settlements. Uses hexagons to assure no surface is left out or overlapped.
What is Central Place Theory?
The order of the urban hierarchy from smallest settlement to largest:
What is hamlet, village, town, city, regional city, global city?
Housing discrimination maintained by real estate industry - white families were encouraged to rapidly sell when African-American families moved into neighborhoods.
What is blockbusting?
Urban policy design that intends to decrease the rate that cities grow outward in attempt to reduce urban sprawl.
What are slow growth cities?
A statement written into a property deed that restricts the use of the land in some way; often used to prohibit certain groups of people from buying property.
What are restrictive covenants?