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Cities/Urban Land Use
Definition
ECONOMIC BASE   Economic base analysis was developed by Robert Murray Haig in his work on the Regional Plan of New York in 1928. Briefly, activities in an area divide into two categories – basic and non-basic.  
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EDGE CITY   Edge city is an American term for a relatively new concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside a traditional urban area in what had recently been a residential suburb or semi-rural community.  
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EMERGING CITIES   (blank)  
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EMPLOYMENT STRUCTURE   (blank)  
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ENTREPOT   An entrepôt (from the French "warehouse") is a trading post where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit.  
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ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOOD   Is a neighborhood, district, or suburb which retains some cultural distinction from a larger, surrounding area.  
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FAVELA   A favela is the Brazilian equivalent of a shanty town. Mostly, they have electricity, but in most cases it is illegally tapped from the public grid.  
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FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLD   Female-headed households are an often acknowledged and just as often neglected area of study in the field of gender and development.  
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FESTIVAL LANDSCAPE   (blank)  
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GATEWAY CITY   Gateway City is a fictional setting, one of many fictional cities in the DC Universe.  
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GENDER   Gender refers to the differences between men and women. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that gender identity is "an individual's self-conception as being male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex.  
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GENTRIFICATION   Gentrification, or urban gentrification, is a term applied to that part of the urban housing cycle in which physically deteriorated neighborhoods attract an influx of investment and undergo physical renovation and an increase in property market values.  
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GHETTO   The term came into widespread use for Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939-1944 with severely constrained conditions, where the Nazis required Jews to live prior to transporting them to concentration and death camps.  
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GLOBALIZATION   Globalization in its literal sense is the process of globalizing, transformation of some things or phenomena into global ones.  
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GREAT CITIES   Globalization in its literal sense is the process of globalizing, transformation of some things or phenomena into global ones.  
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HIGH-TECH CORRIDORS   (blank)  
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HINTERLAND   The hinterland is the land or district behind the borders of a coast or river.  
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HYDRAULIC CIVILIZATION   is a social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to water.  
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INDIGENOUS CITY   (blank)  
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IN-FILLING   The use of vacant land and property within a built-up area for further construction or development, especially as part of a neighborhood preservation or limited growth program.  
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