Vocab
Area of a city where retail/office activities cluster
Central Business District (CBD)
A metropolitan area with a population higher than 20 million people.
What is a metacity?
This model has five rings expanding outward from the Central Business District (CBD). Older homes in the inner ring and newer housing in the outer ring.
What is the Burgess Concentric-Zone model?
What is Urban Sprawl?
the poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to regular city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords
Disamenity Sector (Zone)
Dominant city in terms of its role in global economics/politics.
World (Global) City
An area that has a population higher than 10 million
What is a megacity?
This model is a series of sectors where certain activities gravitate to a certain part of the city based on environmental or economic factors.
What is the Hoyt Sector model?
This is an area of land where development is prohibited and land is left untouched to prevent sprawl.
What is a greenbelt?
Movement of the upper-class and middle-class people from upper core areas to the surrounding outskirts.
Suburbanization
The largest settlement in a country, IF is has more than twice as many people as the second largest city.
Primate City
An urban area located on the outskirts of a city, traditionally connected to a major road way.
What is an edge city?
This model has multiple centers and complex structures that have certain activities that gravitate towards certain nodes in a city. Some nodes attract certain people and activities and repel others.
What are Smart Growth Policies?
This is when upper middle class residents move into a low income neighborhood and renovate the area raising the property value forcing low income residents out.
What is Gentrification?
attempted to develop a model to predict how and where central places in urban hierarchy (hamlets, villages, towns and cities) would be functionally and specially distributed.
Central-Place Theory
Urban model that describes a colonial-era city with a spine extending outwards from the CBD that houses an elite zone
Latin American Model
This model is based on the multiple nuclei model and focuses on transportation systems which allows a beltway to surround the urban area with multiple edge cities on the outside.
What is the Galactic (Peripheral) city model?
An urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly lifestyle by creating walkable neighborhoods that contain a large range of goods/services and homes.
What is New Urbanism?
This is a settlement that is made of cheap materials not up to the standard of the city and on land that the occupant does not even own.
What is a Squatter Settlement?
explains that the price/demand for land increases closer to the CBD (explains the concentric zone model and why different levels of development are located at certain distances from the central city)
Bid-Rent Theory
Urban model that focuses on a port area that is surrounded by foreign commercial zones.
Southeast Asian Model
This model fits with the Sub Saharan African city model due to ancient times that were heavily influenced by colonialism.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
These are buses, trains, subways, and other forms of transportation that charge set fares, run on fixed routes, and are available to the public.
What is public transportation?
Banks would identify what they considered to be risky neighborhoods in cities, often predominantly black neighborhoods, and refuse to offer loans to anyone purchasing a house in the neighborhood encircled by red lines on their map.
Redlining