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Rubenstein 13
Urban Patterns
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annexation | process of legally adding land area to a city. |
| Concentric Zone model | model created by EW Burgess in 1923 |
| Density gradient | density change in an urban area. |
| Edge city | city around a beltway that is a node of consumer and business services |
| Filtering | process of subdivision of houses and occupancy by successive waves of lower-income people. |
| Galactic city | mini edge city that is connected to another city by beltways or highways. |
| Gentrification | process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing. |
| Greenbelt | rings of open space. New housing is built in the older suburbs within the rings and planned extensions |
| Megalopolis | Greek word for "great city." Region described as a metropolitan statistical area that may overlap and cause several large metropolitan areas to come so close together that they form one continuous urban complex. |
| Multiple nuclei model | model created by CD Harris and EL Ullman in 1945 |
| Peripheral model | model created by Chauncey Harris |
| Public housing | housing provided to low-income households |
| Redlining | drawing of lines on a map to identify areas in which banks will refuse to loan money. |
| Renovated housing | housing maintained as result of the alternative to demolishing houses. |
| Scattered site | site in which dwellings are dispersed throughout the city rather than clustered in a large project. |
| Sector model | theory developed by land economist Homer Hoyt in 1939 |
| Smart growth | legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. |
| Sprawl | what US suburbs are characterized by; the progressive spread of development over the landscape. |
| Squatter settlement | settlement where a large percentage of poor immigrants to urban areas in LDCs live because of a housing shortage. |
| Underclass | what inner-city residents are frequently referred to because they are trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems. |
| Urban renewal | something under which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods |
| Zone in transition | name given to the second ring of the concentric zone model |
| Zoning ordinances | rules developed in Europe and North America in the 20th century that encouraged spatial separation. They also prevented mixing of land uses within the same district. |
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