Urban Models
This urban model features a central business district (CBD) surrounded by concentric rings of land use.
What is the Burgess Concentric Zone Model?
The process by which people move from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
A program to renovate and revitalize aging urban neighborhoods.
What is gentrification?
The area surrounding a city that provides economic support, labor, and services.
What is a hinterland?
Cities in less-developed regions often have large informal housing areas due to this urbanization trend.
What is peripheral urban growth?
This model suggests cities develop in sectors radiating out from the CBD, such as industrial corridors or wealthy residential zones.
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
Rapid urban growth often leads to these unregulated, informal settlements.
What are squatter settlements?
When banks refuse loans to residents in certain areas, often based on racial or socioeconomic factors.
What is redlining?
The number of people living in cities compared to the number in rural areas.
What is the urban population ratio?
This model explains the structure of Southeast Asian cities, including a port zone and alien commercial areas.
What is the McGee Model?
This model describes cities with multiple centers or "nodes" of activity, each with its own land use function.
What is the Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model?
This term describes the spread of development into rural and peripheral areas.
What is urban sprawl?
The migration of middle- and upper-class residents and businesses from the inner city to outlying areas.
What is suburbanization?
A city's legally defined boundaries and the services it must provide.
What is a municipality?
This Islamic urban design feature emphasizes privacy and religious centrality.
What is the mosque-centered layout (Islamic City Model)?
This model describes post-industrial cities with decentralized commercial districts and edge cities linked by beltways.
What is the Galactic City Model?
Cities in this category are disproportionately large and dominate the country’s economy, politics, and culture.
What are primate cities?
The decline in importance and investment in the urban core.
What is urban decay?
The minimum number of people needed to support a service.
What is threshold?
In African cities, these multiple CBDs reflect colonial legacies and indigenous patterns.
What is the De Blij Model?
This Latin American city model includes a spine of development, disamenity sectors, and peripheral squatter settlements.
What is the Griffin-Ford Model?
The concept that cities grow according to their level of economic connectivity and importance in the global system.
What is the World Cities Hierarchy?
Legislation that limits how land can be used in specific geographic areas, including residential, commercial, or industrial uses.
What is zoning?
The maximum distance consumers are willing to travel for a service.
What is range?
A process in which global cities compete for investment and talent, creating inequality within and among cities.
What is globalization of urban development?