Urban Models
This model by Ernest Burgess describes urban growth in rings from the CBD.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
The process of cities growing and expanding outward.
What is urbanization?
Laws that determine what kind of development can happen in an area.
What are zoning laws?
He developed the Concentric Zone Model.
Who is Ernest Burgess?
The downtown core of a city is also called this.
What is the Central Business District (CBD)?
Homer Hoyt’s model says cities develop in these shapes instead of rings.
What are sectors or wedges?
A city with over 10 million people is called this.
What is a megacity?
A discriminatory practice where banks deny loans to certain neighborhoods.
What is redlining?
He proposed the Sector Model.
Who is Homer Hoyt?
When the largest city is more than twice the size of the next, it's called a ______ city.
What is a primate city?
This model says cities have multiple centers of activity, like industry or housing.
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
This term refers to the growth of low-density, car-dependent neighborhoods.
What is urban sprawl?
This happens when realtors scare white homeowners into selling homes cheaply.
What is blockbusting?
These two geographers created the Multiple Nuclei Model.
Who are Harris and Ullman?
This term describes a continuous urban area, like from Boston to Washington, D.C.
What is a megalopolis?
This Latin American city model features a spine extending from the CBD.
What is the Griffin-Ford Model?
This process renovates urban neighborhoods, often displacing lower-income residents.
What is gentrification?
Term for when a house shifts from single-family use to multi-tenant or abandonment.
What is filtering?
He created a model for Sub-Saharan African cities.
Who is Harm de Blij?
These fast-growing suburban cities lack a traditional downtown.
What are boomburbs?
This model of African cities has 3 CBDs and ethnic neighborhoods.
What is the De Blij Model?
This illegal housing area appears on the outskirts of many developing-world cities.
What is a squatter settlement?
This urban planning concept promotes sustainable development and limits sprawl.
What is smart growth?
He designed the Southeast Asian City Model.
Who is T.G. McGee?
This rule says the nth largest city is 1/n the size of the largest.
What is the rank-size rule?