Urban Models
This model shows a city in rings, with CBD at the center
What is Concentric Zone Model?
The central area of a city where businesses are located
What is the CBD?
When older urban areas are improved and wealthier people move in
What is gentrification?
A city that plays an important role in global business and politics
What is a world city?
A plan or strategy to guide the growth of cities
What is urban planning?
This model has sectors or wedge, not rings
What is Sector Mode?
The process of people moving from cities to suburbs
What is suburbanization?
Lack of affordable housing in growing cities is an example of…
What is housing crisis?
A very large city that dominates its country economically and culturally
What is a primate city?
Type of development that combines residential and commercial uses
What is mixed use development?
This model suggests cities develop with multiple centers or nodes
What is the Multiple Nuclei Model?
Cities growing together into one large urban area
What is megalopolis?
Informal, unplanned settlements often found in less developed countries
What are squatter settlements?
The theory that describes how cities are distributed in a region
What is Central Place Theory?
A neighborhood designed to be walkable and environmentally friendly
What is urbanism community?
This Latin American city model includes a spine with commercial development
What is the Griffin Ford Model?
The area outside the CBD with residential, commercial, and industrial zones
What is the zone of transitio?
This policy limits development to preserve farmland and nature
What is smart growth?
The smallest type of urban settlement
What is a village or hamlet?
Transportation plan that reduces traffic by encouraging public transit and biking
What is sustainable transportation planning?
This model represents the layouts of Southeats Asian cities with a part at the center
What is the McGee Model?
The spread of low density development out from the urban core
What is urban sprawl?
This process is revitalizing and redeveloping inner city areas
What is urban renewal?
A model that explains how economic functions are arranged in a city based on distance from the CBD
What is the bid rent theory?
Laws that regulate land use in cities
What are zoning laws?