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Urban-Patterns 2
Urban-Patterns
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Edge city | A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. |
| Multiple nuclei model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. |
| Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area |
| Concentric zone model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
| Sector model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD). |
| Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements. |
| Urban renewal | Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers. |
| Peripheral model . | A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. |
| Urbanized area | In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs. |
| Central business district (CBD) | the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
| Squatter settlement | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
| City | An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit |
| Council of government | A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States. |
| Census tract | An area delineated bv the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods. |
| Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States. |
| Deterioration | consider one of the urban challenges: Wealthier people move to suburbs; Landlords get lower rents from lower income people, so they do not keep up repairs on the houses. |
| Social stratification | how society forms different classes that are based on wealth, power, production, and prestige |
| Problem of permanent underclass | Inner cities have concentrations of very poor people, considered to belong to an underclass, some of whom are homeless. Including the "working poor" and "homeless" |
| Culture of poverty | environment of where there is lack of hope. It traps some poor people in the inner cities. |
| Underclass | a group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. |
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