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Chapter 13 Vocab
Chapter 13 Vocab- Urban Patterns
Term | Definition |
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Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States |
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally underground |
Census tract | An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods |
Central business district (CBD) | The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
Central city (City) | An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as municipality |
Combined statistical area (CSA) | In the United States, two or more contiguous CBSAs tied together by commuting patterns. |
Concentric zone model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
Core-based statistical area (CBSA) | In the US, any Metropolitan Statistical Area or Micropolitan Statistical Area |
Density gradient | The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery |
Edge city | A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. |
Filtering | A process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. |
Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area |
Informal settlement | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residence on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
Megalopolis | A continuous urban complex in the northeastern U.S. |
Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) | In the U.S. an urbanized area of at least 50k people, the county within which the city is located, and the adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city. |
Micropolitan statistical area (mSA) | An urbanized area of between 10k-50k inhabitants, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties tied to the city |
Multiple nuclei model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. |
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. |
Primary census area (PSA) | In the United States, any CSA, any MSA not included in a CSA, or any mSA not included in a CSA |
Public housing | Government owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30% of the tenant's income. |
Redlining | A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property withing th elines |
Rush hour | The 4 consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic |
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. |
Smart growth | Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |
Social area analysis | Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area |
Sprawl | Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area |
Suburb | A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city. |
Sustainable development | Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs |
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. |
Urban area | A central city and its surrounding built-up subrubs |
Urban cluster | In the US, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50k inhabitants. |
Urbanized area | In the US an urban area with at least 50k inhabitants |
Zoning ordinance | A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |