Urban basics
A place with lots of people, buildings, and roads.
What is a City?
This model shows a city growing out in circles, like a bullseye.
What is a Concentric zone?
The name when suburbs grow quickly and spread out.
What is a Sprawl?
Areas outside the city that are mostly made of houses and where many families live are.
What is the Suburbs?
Making decisions about how land in a city should be used.
What is urban planning?
This area is outside the city and has more open land and fewer people.
What is a rural area?
This model shows a city growing like pizza slices along transportation.
What is a Sector model?
This process lets cities legally add more land.
What is Annexation?
This is the term for when people are separated by income or race in where they live.
What is social class segregation?
This stopped people of color from buying or owning property in certain neighborhoods.
What is a racial covenant?
When people move from the countryside into cities.
What is Urbanization?
This model shows a city with more than one main area or center?.
What is a Multiple nuclei model?
This event caused more families to move to the suburbs.
What is World war ll?
When land is separated by its use like keeping homes away from factories.
What is land Use segregation?
This unfair practice used red lines on maps to keep people of color from getting home loans.
What is redlining?
A big city and the nearby towns and suburbs around it make up.
What is a metropolitan area?
The name for the downtown area of a city where most business happens.
What is a Central Business District (CBD)?
This is the name for the rules that limit how far cities can grow.
What is smart growth?
This is the term for when suburban areas are mostly made up of wealthy white families.
What is Suburban segregation?
This is the term for the rule that controls where things like houses or factories can be built.
What is a zoning ordinance?
The study of cities and how people use space in them.
What is urban geography?
This part of the city is where most people live, often shown as rings or sections around the center.
What is a residential zone?
The kind of development spreads into rural land and causes problems.
What is urban sprawl?
This describes how population gets lower the farther you move from the center of a city.
What is density gradient?
Fixing discrimination in housing based on race, religion, or background.
What is the fair housing act?