City Models
What city model divides urban areas going from the CBD?
The Concentric Zone
Twice as large as the second-largest city
Primate city
Design approach for walkability, and livability
New Urbanism
An uncontrolled expansion of suburbs
Urban Sprawl
A city with a population over 10 million
Mega City
What city model has the development in split sectors?
The Sector model
When a small town has to rely on a larger city for specialized services
Interdependence
Area of land around an urban area protected from development
Green Belt
When realtors scare people to selling their house for cheap, and promoting it for more
Blockbusting
a low-density, prosperous residential community located beyond the suburbs of a major city often separated from the inner suburbs by rural land
Exurb
City Model that shows the argument that cities can have multiple growth points?
Multiple-Nuclei Model
Pattern that predicts city population within a country
Rank-size rule
Population deconstruction away from large settlements
Counter-urbanization
When land is officially adopted to a city, town, or township
Annexation
A rapidly growing suburban city with over 100,000 residents that is not the core city
Boomburb
Combines elements of Latin American culture and globalization by combining radical sectors and Concentric zones
Latin American city model (Griffin-Ford model)
Urban cores which are located outside of the Central Businesses District
Edge-cities
Residential, commercial, and sometimes industrial spaces are close together.
Mixed land use
Aims to describe settlements placement by size based on their ability to provide services
Central place theory
interaction between two places such as migration, trade, or communication is affected as per their population sizes
Gravity Model
What city model shows that economic activity has migrated far beyond traditional downtown core?
Galactic(peripheral) City model
What are Tokyo, London, and New York City considered?
A World City
The restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class
Gentrification
When banks where able to refuse loans because of the area you lived in
Redlining
The smallest scale of human settlement.
Hamlet