Urban Data
A census
Quantitative
An area with nature within a city (mostly parks)
Green Belt
Government owned residencies
public housing
The thing in every urban model that contains the core economic functions of the urban area (banks, government offices, law firms, etc.)
Central Business District or CBD
When a bank refuses to give a loan in a certain neighborhood (mostly a minority one)
Redlining
Aerial photo of a cities streets during rush hour
Qualitative
The ability to get around in a city without a vehicle
Walkability
Advocating for food to be grown and consumed within the same neighborhood
local food movement
The model that uses rings to dived up different zones
Burgess Concentric Zone Model
Non-structural Infrastructure
Average Income in a certain neighborhood
Quantitative
Taking abandoned area of cities and turning them into businesses, housing or parks
Urban Renewal
When urban renewal makes it so that a neighborhoods becomes to expensive for people in it
Gentrification
The model type that divides the urban area into different sections like in a pie chart
Hoyt Sector Model
A term describing a brazilian squatter settlement
Favela
Qualitative
When a neighborhood is used for both residential and commercial purposes
Mixed-Use Neighborhood
Ending this type of segregation (segregation that is not written by laws but caused by societal structures)
De Facto Segregation
The model that has vast amount of distance and underdeveloped land between different zones
Galactic Model
The zoning of a city that typically includes factories, warehouses and low-income housing
Industrial Zone
The average temperature per month in a city
Quantitative
Brownfeilds or Zones of Abandonment
When the government gives private companies tax breaks for allowing for low income units within their private housing
Inclusionary Zoning
The model used to describe a city that has multiple centers of industry
Harris & Ullman Multi-Nuclei Model
The reason that Denver is considered a world city
Denver International Airport