Types of Urban Models
An urban city model with affluent gated residences stretching from the Central Business District surrounded by progressively lower-income settlements.
What is the Latin American City Model?
Cities bridging two regions that function as access points for both areas.
What are Gateway Cities?
The entrepreneurial sector of an urban area.
What is the Central Business District?
Real estate agents' endeavors to persuade ethnic groups to sell their property due to perceived racial differences in an area.
What is Blockbusting?
The most important global cities according to economic, cultural, and political relevance.
What are World Cities?
An urban city model constructed by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman in 1945 claiming that urban centers develop separately from the Central Business District.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
Large-scale businesses around which a city grows and relies on economically.
What are Basic Industries?
When two cities in close proximity merge.
What is In-Filling?
Lending businesses' refusal to grant loans to citizens in higher-risk areas, often occurring with high mortgage default rates.
What is Redlining?
The 3 main World Cities, in any order.
Where are New York City, London, and Tokyo?
An urban city model exemplifying post-industrial North America where cities independent of the Central Business District are joined to the primary city by arterial highways and interstates.
What is the Galactic City Model?
The size of cities are proportional to other cities within that country.
What is the Rank-Size Rule?
The theory that the closer to the central business district you are, the higher the value of the land and the less affordable the property is for non-commercial businesses.
What is Bid-Rent Theory?
Urban characteristics resulting in a declining desire to inhabit an area.
What are Disamenities?
Second tier cities with notable economic and political influence.
What are Alpha World Cities?
An urban city model with three Central Business Districts surrounded by cultural communities, industrial and mining zones, and squatter settlements.
What is the African City Model?
A center which reexports goods to other centers around the world.
What is an Entrepot?
Government systems set to allow delivery of electricity, Internet connectivity, and sewer services.
What is Utility Infrastructure?
Rules set in place in an attempt to prevent economic failure.
What are Restrictive Covenants?
Name three Alpha World Cities.
Where are (any of the following) Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Frankfurt, Milan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
An urban city model with distinct, exclusive areas set apart from other zones in the city.
What is the Keno-Capitalism Model?
Agglomerations with public Internet and transportation that allow businesses in close proximity to one another to take advantage of the community infrastructure.
What are Office Parks?
A street pattern resembling tree roots that curve unsystematically throughout a city.
What is Dendritic?
Street patterns, structures, and physical forms that create an urban heat island effect.
What is Urban Morphology?
Name three Gamma World Cities.
Where are (any of the following): Amsterdam, Dallas, Houston, Boston, Melbourne, Düsseldorf, Jakarta, Osaka, Caracas, Geneva, Johannesburg, and Prague?