Chapter 15
A city and its surrounding suburbs.
What is an urban area.
A city's population density is affected by.
What is the type of housing.
Limits commute time and designs livable urban space.
What is Mixed Use Development
This theory explains that the cost of land will determine what it will be used for.
What is the Bid Rent Theory.
This describes the distribution of cities, towns, villages, and hamlets in a given region, not taking into account physical geographic barriers such as mountains or bodies of water. According to the theory, large cities produce higher-order goods and services, thus drawing trade and population from surrounding towns and villages.
What is the Central Place Theory.
At the beginning of the industrial revolution, factories took advantage of power provided by.
What is a river.
______________research is based on descriptions and narratives.
What is qualitative.
City where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which the city grows outward.
What is Slow Growth Cities
Zoning that creates separate zones based on land-use type or economic funtion such as various categories of residential(low-, medium-, or high-density), commericial, or industrial.
What is Traditional Zoning.
A model of urban development depicting a city where growth occurs around the progressive integration of multiple nodes, not around one central business district(CBD)
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model.
A network of trade routes that contributed to the exchange of ideas among diverse cultures in Europe and Asia for more than 1500 years.
What is The Silk Road.
Wealthy people tend to live in areas.
What is of less density.
A school of thought that promotes designing growth to limit the amount of urband sprawl and preserve nature and usable farmland.
What is New Urbanism
A type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center.
What is an Edge city.
A model of urban development depicting a central with a central business district, concentric rings, high end commercial sector, and sections stricten by poverty; also known as the Griffin Ford Model.
What is the Latin American City Model.
A city's ________________ is the connection between it's site and other sites.
What is situation
A high poverty urban area in a disadvantaged location containing steep slopes, flood prone ground, rail lines, landfills, or industry.
What is Disamenity Zone.
In the US, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development are exploring solutions to environmental injustice by offering.
What is Housing Vouchers.
Practice by which a financial institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhood's racial and ethnic makeup.
What is Redlining.
A model of urban development depicting a city where economic activity has moved from the central business district toward loose coaltions of other urban areas and suburbs; also known as the peripheral model.
What is a Galactic City Model.
Explanation of the size of cities within a country, states the second largest city will be one half the size of the largest, the third largest will be one third the size of the largest and so on.
What is Rank Size Rule.
A city grows outward from the CBD in a series of concentric rings. Moving outward: CBD, mixed land use/transitional zone, homes to working class, higher value residences, and last commuter zone.
What the Burgess Concentric-zone Model.
The ways in which of color and poor people are more likely to be exposed to environmental burdens such as air pollution or contaminated water; also called environmental racism.
What is Enviromental Injustice.
A model of urban development depicting a city oriented around a port and lacking a formal central business district, growing outward in concentric rings and along multiple nodes.
What is the Southeast Asian City Model.
Is used to explain the relationship between cities of various sizes. According to the model, the level of spatial interaction—such as trade, traffic flow, number of visitors, and communication—between two cities depends on the size of the cities’ population and the distance between them.
What is the Gravity Model