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Unit 6 Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Central Business District | The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge. |
| Burgess Concentric Zone Model | a spatial model of the American city that suggests the existence of five concentric rings around a CBD. -Outdated bc transportation has evolved. -ONLY IN THE US |
| Hoyt Sector Model | the theory of urban structure that a city develops in a series of certain SECTORS, instead of rings. -OUTDATED because we don't use railroads anymore -some areas are more attractive for certain activities than others |
| Multiple Nuclei Model | Type of urban form wherein cities have NUMEROUS CENTER/NODES of business and cultural activity instead of one central place. |
| Galactic City Model | represents the POST-INDUSTRIAL city with its SEVRAL, DISPLACED business districts. This model represents a distinct DECENTRILIZATION and HOLLOWS out the central business district |
| Edge City | cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment |
| Griffin-Ford Latin American City Model | Latin American Culture combine radial sectors and concentric zones. Has 2 PARTS OF CBD :commercial SPINE, and MALL(SECONDARY CBD). The POOR = PERIFERICO people live farther away from the CBD, WEALTHY = CBD |
| spine | high-quality housing that extends from the urban core. |
| Periferico | Most peripheral zone of a Latin American city marked by squatter settlements and abject poverty. |
| Favela | a Brazilian shack or shanty town; a slum. |
| Disamenity Zones | areas not connected to city services and under the control of drug lords and gangs |
| McGee model | Developed by geographer T.G. McGee, a model showing similar land-use patterns among the medium-sized cities of Southeast Asia showing a colonial port and industrial parks. |
| Sub-Saharan Africa City Model | city model with colonial section, market section, and indigenous section, surrounded by ethnic neighborhoods and squatter settlements |
| European City Model | Cityscape that has many churches, palaces and older structures with narrow street. Very few skyscrapers exist due to city restrictions. |
| periodic market | a collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specified days |
| 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. |
| Rural-urban migration | Country to City |
| Islamic City Model | Cities in Muslim countries. Islamic cities have mosques at the center and walls guarding their perimeter. Open-air markets, courtyards surrounded by high walls, and dead-end streets, which limit foot traffic in residential neighborhoods. |
| suqs | a market in an Arab city |
| citadel | a fortress that overlooks and protects a city; any strong or commanding place |
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