Key Issue
the area of the cities while retail and office activities historically were clustered was the
what is CBD
according to the concentric zone model, a city develops in a series of
what is rings
the process of change in the use of a house, from a single-family owner occupancy to abandonment to
compared to the UK, sprawl in the US is?
what is increasing
subways, monorails, buses and trains are examples of
what is public transit
land values are high in the CBD primarily because of
social area analysis attempts to explain
what is the distribution of different types of people in an urban area
a process by which banks designate an area within which they refuse to lend money for improvement is
what is redlining
the process of legally adding land to a city in the United States is
what is annexation
factories have moved to suburban areas because? give two reasons
what is access to highways, cheap land, space
what activity tends to locate on a street-level floor of a skyscraper in a typical Northern American CBD?
what is retail
what is the multiple nuclei model?
what is a city is a complex structure with more than one node
public housing is
what is low-income government-owned housing
a city its surrounding built-up suburbs is the
what is urbanized area
what is a Combined Statistical Area?
what is two or more contiguous CBSAs tied together by commuting patterns
retail activities that tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have
what is services for office workers
the wide boulevards built in cities in less developed countries were most likely built during what era?
what is colonial
a process from converting a neighborhood from low-income to middle-class is
what is gentrification
megalopolis refers to
what is adjacent, overlapping Metropolitan Statistical Area
the peripheral model is characterized by? name 2 things
what is beltway and edge cities
Europe's CBD's are different than American's CBD's in that (2 things)
what is US has more skyscrapers, more residential areas, Europe has more transit
in Latin America the wealthy are found?
what is near the inner city extending out
according to U.S. law, when a family is forced by a city to relocate..
what is moving expenses and rent increases are paid by the government
what are the two ways that the government has encouraged the use of cars
what is building interstate highways, policies to keep the gas prices low
the expectation to the downward trend in public transit
what is heavy rail