On the Move!
This process is when higher-class citizens move to and invest in lower-class neighborhoods in order to revitalize them.
What is gentrification?
This mindset casts aside the urban planning initiatives of old, and instead pushes for innovative solutions that prioritize sustainability and efficiency.
What is New Urbanism?
This term refers to the expanse of urban and suburban land in a specific area. Some have said that it's getting out of control.
What is Sprawl?
All the physical characteristics of a place are placed under this umbrella term. (Weather, terrain, access to water, etc.)
What is Site?
This term refers to when the government implements policies and growth initiatives designed to specifically benefit the lower class.
What is Microfinancing?
This rhyming phrase describes the growing trend of higher-class white people choosing to move to the suburbs instead of closer to the CBD.
What is White Flight?
What is Mixed-Use?
Though they look pretty, these colorfully-named conservation areas on the outskirts of cities have been criticized for not doing much more than that.
All the human characteristics of a place are placed under this umbrella term. (Political stability, economics, public mindset, etc.)
What is Situation?
These areas are typically low in cost of living and even lower in quality of life. They are where people move to when they have no other option, although it's not exactly legal.
What are Squatter Settlements?
New methods of developing communities brings people closer together in more ways than one! This trait refers to the ability of someone to get from one service to another without needing to use public transport.
What is Walkability?
This old, discriminatory practiced was used to segregate people by sectioning off different sections of urban townships.
What is Redlining?
This type of quantitative data surveying involves the direct counting of citizens and the measuring of their attributes. We had one last year, actually.
What is a Census?
These neighborhoods form when people of similar races and ethnicities move to the same places due to matters of circumstance. They're typically looked down upon for instability.
What are ghettos?
These colorful areas form as a result of contamination and abandonment. Recently, it has become common practice to renovate them into something else, entirely!
What are Brownbelts?
This is when real estate mongers capitalize on the fear of homeowners in order to convince them to sell their residences. It is often associated with racial discrimination.
What is Blockbusting?
Studies, narratives, and interviews all fall under this type of data surveying.
What is Qualitative?
This term, coined by Burgress, refers to the trend of low-income people moving closer to the CBD while higher-income people move out further from it.
What is succession?
These appropriately-named areas are put in place along the borders of central cities to prevent the spread of urbanization.
What are Urban Growth Boundaries?
This is the process by which the government exerts authority over a piece of civilian property and takes it for itself. (They did this a lot back then.)
What is Eminent Domain?
Real estate companies used to use (racist) data to perform risk assessments on certain neighborhoods. The best grade they could give you is 1, and the worst is this.
What is Grade 4?