Urban models
This city model uses concentric rings to represent different zones based on socio-economic status.
What is the Concentric Zone Model?
This process involves the movement of people from central cities to residential areas outside the urban core.
What is suburbanization?
The process of renovating deteriorated urban neighborhoods, often displacing existing low-income residents.
What is gentrification?
A strategy to promote environmentally friendly development, reduce sprawl, and revitalize city centers.
What is smart growth?
The division of cities into small geographic areas used for analyzing census data.
What are census tracts?
This model emphasizes radial corridors of development, especially along transportation routes.
What is Hoyt’s Sector Model?
This term describes low-density development that spreads outward from urban areas, often with heavy car reliance.
What is urban sprawl?
These are informal housing areas often lacking legal ownership and basic services.
What are squatter settlements?
These green areas are set aside to limit development and preserve open space around cities.
What are greenbelts?
This rule states that a country's nth-largest city is 1/n the size of its largest city.
What is the rank-size rule?
This Latin American urban model features a spine of high-end development radiating from the CBD and surrounded by zones of squatter settlements.
What is the Latin American City Model?
These are large, fast-growing suburban cities that are not the core of a metropolitan area but rival traditional cities in size.
What are boomburbs?
A now-illegal practice where real estate agents encouraged white homeowners to sell cheaply out of racial fear.
What is blockbusting?
When multiple types of land use (e.g. residential, commercial, recreational) exist in the same area.
What is mixed-use land?
This model predicts the level of interaction between two places based on size and distance.
What is the gravity model?
Also called the Peripheral Model, this model features a decentered CBD and edge cities linked by beltways.
What is the Galactic City Model?
These cities have populations over 10 million and often struggle with infrastructure, pollution, and housing.
What are megacities?
Once-vibrant districts that have been economically abandoned and neglected by urban investment.
What are zones of abandonment?
The official boundaries and government of a city or town.
What is a municipality?
Data that involves numbers and statistics, such as population or income.
What is quantitative data?
This model, based on Walter Christaller’s work, explains how settlements serve as “central places” providing services to surrounding areas.
What is Central Place Theory?
This concept describes the tendency for the largest city in a country to be disproportionately larger than the second-largest.
What is a primate city?
This phenomenon occurs when tall buildings and concrete absorb and radiate more heat, raising local temperatures.
What is the urban heat island effect?
An attempt to rebuild or redevelop parts of the urban landscape, often using public-private partnerships.
What is urban renewal?
Data based on descriptions, observations, and interviews rather than numerical measures.
What is qualitative data?