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Urban Models
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City Growth
100

Developed by Burgess and based on Chicago. Includes a Central Business District and rings around the center moving further and further away.

What is Concentric Zone Model?

100
This is when the largest settlement in a country has more than twice the number as the second ranking city. Examples are Paris and London.
What is Primate City Rule?
100

Favelas in Brazil are an example of this name for the outermost ring of a city. Tenants occupy this land illegally. 

What is a squatter settlement?

100

The census is an example of this form of data, which uses statistical information to understand demographic trends in cities.

What is quantitative data?

200

an economic theory that attempts to explain the price the people will pay for different land at differing distances from the Central Business District.

What is the bid-rent curve?

200
This states that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank. Ex: largest city has 12 million the second largest will have 6 million
What is Rank Size Rule?
200

A ring of well maintained parks circling the Urban City Center, designed to limit the sprawl of urban areas.

What is a greenbelt?

200

Cities that have a population of 20 million or more people

What is a metacity?

300

Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine where more expensive residential housing and businesses exists.

What is the Latin American model?

300
Unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
What is urban sprawl?
300

the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.

What is gentrification?

300

The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city. Peripheral urban areas grow as a result of households and businesses moving out of the city centers.

What is suburbanization?

400

Low income areas are near the city while higher income areas are extended out in the suburbs. There us a beltway connecting various edge cities.

What is the Peripheral or Multi-Nuclei model?

400

a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system. The theory was created by the German geographer Walter Christaller.

What is central place theory?

400

Examples are London, NY, Paris and Tokyo.

What are world cities?

400

An urban movement to create livable space in existing cities, by focusing on green energy, transportation and open spaces. 

What is new urbanism?

500

This model has no CBD. The focal point is the Port Zone reflecting a city oriented around exporting. There are zones for Wester merchants.

What is the Southeast Asian model?

500
This is the downtown heart of the central city and is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce and the clustering of the tallest buildings
What is CBD? (Central Business District)
500

formal industrial areas that have been abandoned

What are brownfields?

500

A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.

What is redlining?