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Geography
uit 6 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| annexation | legally adding land area to a city in the u.s |
| blockbusting | real estate tactic to get white people to sell their homes cheeply |
| central business district | retail and office areas are clustered |
| central place theory | theory abt distribution of services and location |
| census tract | an area designated by the u.s bureau of the census for which statistics are published |
| city state | sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
| concentric zone model | internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged in a series of rings |
| density gradient | the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery |
| edge city | a larg node of office and retail activities o the edge of an urban area |
| filtering | process of change in the use of a house from single family owner occupancy to none |
| food desert | area that has many low income residents and poor access to grocery store |
| peripheral model | inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas |
| gentrification | process of converting an urban neighboorhood from low income residents to middle class owners |
| gravity model | potential use of a service of a location is related to the number of people and to distance traveled to reach service |
| metropolitan statistical area | an area containing a substantial poulation with adjaent communities having increase economic and social intergration |
| megalopolis | continuous urban comlex in the north eastern us |
| multiple muclei model | model of the internal structure of cities in which socail groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities |
| primate city | a city that is the largest settlement in a countrt and twice as much pop as second ranking settlement |
| public housing | government owned housing rented to low income individual with rents set at 30 percent of tenants income |
| range of service | the max distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| rank size rule | pattern of settleents in a country such that the nth largest setlement is 1/n the population of largest settlement |
| redlining | a process by which financial institutions draw re-colored lines on a map and dont fund property within the line |
| sector model | model of the internal structure of cities which social groups are aranged around a series of sectors or wedges readiation outwards |
| smart growth | legislation and reglations to limit suburban etation and burning the debris |
| threshold | min of people needed to support a service |
| urbanization | increast in percent of and number of people living inurban settlements |
| zoning ordinace | a law that limits the permmited use of land and max density of development in communities |
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