Definitions of Urban Settlements
Small and compact settlements.
What is an urban settlement?
A residential or commercial area in an urban area, but outside the city.
What is a suburb?
A geographer's term for "downtown".
What is a "central business district"?
The most dominant mode of transportation.
What are private vehicles?
An urban settlement that has been made into an independent and self-governing unit.
What is a municipality?
The process of legally adding land to a city or area.
What is annexation?
Some of the services that "downtown" offers.
What are government offices, libraries, musems (any of these answers + more accepted).
More convenience and flexible shedules, as well as perceived cost savings.
What are some of the benefits of private transportation?
Megalopolises are made of these.
What is overlapping metropolitan areas?
A single-family dwelling, space to park, and greater opportunity for ownership.
What are the benefits of suburban living?
This type of area is located near or at the original site of the city.
What is the CBD?
Toll roads and permit systems.
These types of areas contain upwardxs of 50,000 people.
What are Urbanized areas?
Cities offered better services, such as water supply, sewage disposal, trash pickup, paved streets, public transportation, and police and fire protection to these areas.
What are areas annexed into a city?
Prior to the COVID-19 lockdown, these type of retailers were more likely to survive because they appealed to nearby office workers.
What are retailers serving other CBD workers.
CBD's are more "3 demensional" because _____?
Used to study urban areas as many statistics are posted at the county level.
What is the importance of MSA's (metropolitan statistical areas)?
Governments that can "even out" who rules what areas and can provide amenities and laws tailored to the smaller area they control.
What are federal governments?
Adults who have either never had children or they have grown up and left town.
What are "empty nesters"?
Sail-wagon, iron-horse, and steel rail were some of these.
What are some iconic eras in the U.S transportation timeline?