Urban Models and Theories
Model that shows the hierarchical spatial patterns based on economic function of cities.
What is Central Place Theory
Metropolitan areas with population more then 10 million people.
What is a megacity?
Housing discrimination by banks where they would refuse to grant loans due to ethnic or racial composition.
What is redlining?
Planned urban development that includes multiple uses.
What is mixed-use development?
Transportation systems, wifi, and sewage systems are examples of
What is infrastructure?
In this urban model, cities develop around multiple focal points and build outwards to create a region.
What is multiple nuclei model?
Particular city that is at least double the size of next in the country in terms of population size, economic, and cultural influence.
What is a primate city
Housing discrimination maintained by real estate industry.
What is blockbusting?
Area of green space around an urban area with goal of limiting urban sprawl.
What is greenbelt?
Cities that exert global economic, cultural, and political influence.
What are world cities?
This urban model is characterized by a port zone which is the center of trade.
What is Southeast Asian City Model?
Model that shows the relationship between population distribution in cities that are interconnected in urban hierarchy.
What is rank-size rule?
Residential areas on abandoned land that are built with found materials not connect to city.
What are squatter settlements
Approach to city planning that factors in ideas from architects and city managers
What is New Urbanism?
Climate, landforms, availability of water are example of ____ factors.
What is site?
A model that shows the spatial relationship between locations of different sizes, flows of people and communication.
What is Gravity Model.
If a city follows rank size rule and the population of largest city is 15 million, the population of the third largest city.
What is 5 million.
Location where resident access to affordable, healthy food is restricted.
what is food desert?
Abandoned industrial sites in suburbs due to the shift from manufacturing to service-based economies.
What is brownfield?
This is a city classifying lands like residential, industrial, commercial, etc.
What is Zoning.
Most modern urban model that focuses on the suburbanization of urban environments.
What is Galactic city model?
Order or Urban hierarchy from smallest to largest settlement.
What is hamlet, village, town, city?
Process where high income resident buy abandoned industrial areas and restore the property.
What is gentrification?
Utilization of mixed-use zoning policies in order to increase the use of already existing urban structures.
What is smart growth?
Community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers, office space and retail complexes.
What is edge city?