Cities
Density is Intensity
City Designers
Is it sustainable?
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Urban Structures
100
More dense, tightly packed cities build in this direction to maximize land-use. Prevalent in North American cities, and tends to be limited in most European cities due to building height restrictions.
What is up?
100
Single family homes detached with small yards are characteristic of this density area.
What is medium density?
100
Integration of commercial and residential areas to maximize space use especially in high income residential zones to reduce urban sprawl.
What is mix-use land development?
100
Undeveloped land around urban and suburban areas is called this? 
What is greenbelt?
100
A language which is commonly understood and used even by non-native speakers.
What is Lingua Franca?
100
Range, threshold, and hexagonal market areas all explain the location of human settlements and goods provided in a residential area is part of this theory.
What is Chistaller's Central Place theory?
200
The most populated city in a country and is disproportional in terms of population to the subsequent cities. Violates the Rank-size rule.
What are primate cities?
200
Open space, sparsely populated towns, are known as this density area.
What is low density?
200
An New urbanism design initiative attempting to preserve farmland by specifically reducing this phenomenon.
What is urban sprawl?
200
Reduced urban sprawl, increase affordable housing and mixed-use neighborhoods are part of what solution focused of new city designs.
What is New Urbanism?
200
A mixed language deveoped from a pidgin to a unique distinct language combining colonial language with an indigenous language.
What is creolization?
200
The McGee model, based on Bangkok, Thailand replaces a CBD with this as the source of central economic activity.
What is a port?
300
Communication, roads, highways, bridges, airports, hospitals, water and sewage systems, electric grid (power lines) etc. all classify as this very important part of cities.
What is infrastructure?
300
Highly populated cities (areas) with large number of people living per unit of measurement (sq. m or sq. k).
What is high density area?
300
Society, the environment and this entity is involved in the impact and creation of infrastructure.
Using tax dollars they build and maintain it; the best infrastructure tends to see the most economic development.
What is local government / politics?
300
Increased walkability; access to mass-transportation, and creating mixed-use land to optimize the growth of cities is known as this sustainable solution.
What is smart-growth?
300
The reduced interaction between locations due to more space between them.
What is distance decay?
300
The most contemporary model of cities internal structure in the U.S. and Canada. Creates edge cities through beltways and highways around the main CBD.
What is Galactic city (peripheral) model?
400
The spatial patterns of economic and social development rely on these 2 aspects of infrastructure. Clue --> Where is it? How good is it?
What is location and quality?
400
Pollution, strain on resources, and the transportation nightmare that is Rush hour in major cities called this, are a few of the major issues facing growing cities.
What is traffic congestion?
400
As smart-growth policies and new urbanism initiatives are implemented, this problem arises as a result of increased demand and cost of those areas. Examples Detroit, Chicago, Memphis.
What is de facto segregation cities?
400
A phenomenon in which technology improvements have seemingly made the world shrink.
What is time-space compression?
400
The Griffin-Ford model in Latin America includes in Situ accretion, gentrification zones, and this long extending corridor from the CBD in which high-income elite residential areas are adjacent to.
What is a spine?
500
In Mexico city, this safe and fast method is being used to connect communities on the outskirts to jobs and opportunities in the city. 
What are aerial trams? Gondolas in the air?
500
Cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Munich all must contend with very high housing cost by potentially implementing this new urbanism initiative to reduce cost of living.
What is increase affordable housing?