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Cities & Urban Land
#'s 18-22, 24-33, 35-41
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| World city | Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy: center of the flow of information and capital |
| Emerging cities | City currently without much population but increasing in size at a fast rate |
| Megacities | A city with a population of over 10 million people |
| Gateway city | A city that serves as a link between one country or region and others because of its physical situation |
| Primate city | The largest settlement in a country if it has more than 2x as many people as the second-ranking settlement |
| Economic base: basic | Export primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| Economic base: nonbasic | Enterprises whose customers live in the same community |
| Entrepot | A trading center, or simply a warehouse, where merchandise can be imported and exported without paying import duties, often at a profit |
| Infrastructure | The underlying framework of services and amenities needed to facilitate productive activity |
| CBD (Central business district) | Downtown of a city |
| Census tracts | Small districts used by the U.S Census Bureau to survey the population |
| Peak land value intersection | The most accessible and costly parcel of land in the CBD and therefore in the entire urbanized area |
| Centrality | The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract producers and consumers to its facilities; a city's "reach" into the surrounding region |
| Decentralization | The tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city |
| Commercialization | The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity |
| Squatter settlements | Illegal housing settlements usually made of temporary shelters that surround large cities |
| Inner city | the central area of a major city; in the US it often applied to the poorer parts of the city center where people are less educated and wealthy where there is more crime |
| Ethnic neighborhood | An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background |
| Ghetto | Used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
| Redlining | A practice by bans and mortgage companies of demarcating areas considered to be a high risk for housing loans |
| Urban renewal | The cleaning and redevelopment of urban slum |
| Blockbusting | Process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear ethnic minorities will move into their neighborhood |
| Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominately low-income renter-occupied area to a predominately middle-class owner-occupied area |
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