Urban Growth Boundary

Borders a city's edges & defines where new developments can take place; separate urban land uses by limiting how few each city can expand.

Legal rights associated with owning land

creates separate zones based on land use type or economic function such as various categories of residential, commercial, or industrial.

Transportation-Oriented Development

A creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed use communities around or located near a transit station.

A segregation that results from residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws.

Real Estate agents would strip concern that African American families would soon move to a neighborhood; convince white property owners to sell their houses at below-market prices.

Areas that have been deserted in a city for economic or environmental reasons

The process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower-income groups

Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas.

High-poverty urban area in a disadvantageous location containing steep slopes, flood-prone ground, rail lines, landfills, or industry.

The number of people needed to support a certain good or service.

Cities given large federal grants to tear down & clear out crumbling neighborhoods and formal industrial zones as a way to rebuild their downtowns.

A government's right to take privately owned property for public use or interest.

Is a school of thought closely associated with smart growth A practice assoicated with reducing urban sprawl + being more sustainable

Cities where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which cities grow outward.

When a lending institution (banks) refuses to offer house loans on the basis of a neighborhood's racial or ethnic makeup.

mixed-use development

One way to limit sprawl + design livable urban spaces through using space for multiple uses

inclusionary zoning laws

a land use policy that requires or encourages developers to include a certain percentage of affordable housing units in new residential areas

Focal points of a functional region.

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Term	Definition
Urban Growth Boundary	Borders a city's edges & defines where new developments can take place; separate urban land uses by limiting how few each city can expand.
Land Tenure	Legal rights associated with owning land
Traditional Zoning	creates separate zones based on land use type or economic function such as various categories of residential, commercial, or industrial.
Transportation-Oriented Development	A creation of dense, walkable, pedestrian-oriented, mixed use communities around or located near a transit station.
De Facto Segregation	A segregation that results from residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws.
Blockbusting	Real Estate agents would strip concern that African American families would soon move to a neighborhood; convince white property owners to sell their houses at below-market prices.
Zones of Abandonment	Areas that have been deserted in a city for economic or environmental reasons
Filtering	The process of neighborhood change in which housing vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower-income groups
Infill	Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas.
Disamenity Zones	High-poverty urban area in a disadvantageous location containing steep slopes, flood-prone ground, rail lines, landfills, or industry.
Threshold	The number of people needed to support a certain good or service.
Urban Renewal	Cities given large federal grants to tear down & clear out crumbling neighborhoods and formal industrial zones as a way to rebuild their downtowns.
Eminent Domain	A government's right to take privately owned property for public use or interest.
New Urbanism	Is a school of thought closely associated with smart growth A practice assoicated with reducing urban sprawl + being more sustainable
Slow-growth cities	Cities where planners have used smart-growth policies to decrease the rate at which cities grow outward.
redlining	When a lending institution (banks) refuses to offer house loans on the basis of a neighborhood's racial or ethnic makeup.
mixed-use development	One way to limit sprawl + design livable urban spaces through using space for multiple uses
inclusionary zoning laws	a land use policy that requires or encourages developers to include a certain percentage of affordable housing units in new residential areas
nodes	Focal points of a functional region.

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