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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Urban Area | A city and it’s surrounding suburbs |
| Metropolitan areas | A city and the surrounding area areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city |
| infill | Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas |
| edge city | A type of community located on the outskirts of a large larger city |
| urban sprawl | Areas, expanding and an unplanned and uncontrolled way covering large expenses of land and housing, commercial development and roads |
| boomburg | A suburb that grow rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100k RESIDNTS |
| exurb | A typically fast cleaner growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area, where the residence and community are closely connected to the central city in suburbs |
| Threshold | The number of people need to support a certain good or service |
| Rank size rule | Second largest city is 1/2 of the size and third largest city is 1/3 of the size |
| Primate city | A city that for exceeds in population size and influence the countries next largest city |
| Central place theory | A theory that describes a central place as a settlement that provides goods and services for the surrounding areas |
| Range | The distance that someone is willing to travel for a good service |
| Metacity | Cities with more than 20 million people |
| Word cities | Sometimes referred to as global cities have influenced not only over their country or region, but also across the globe |
| Megacity | Cities with more than 30 million people |
| Apartheid | |
| Disamenity zones | High poverty, urban areas and disadvantage locations containing steep slopes, flood, prone grounds, rail, lines, landfills, or industry |
| Squatter settlements | Infrastructure that lacks basic services like water, sanitation, and electricity people aren’t permitted to live there legally |
| Nodes | doesn’t grow in rings or injectors, but it is formed by the progressive integration of multiple focal points of a functional region |
| Zoning | The process of dividing a city or urban area into zones within which only certain land uses are permitted |
| Mixed use developments | One way to limit sprawl is a single planned development designed to include multiple uses such as residential retail, education, educational recreational industrial, and office spaces |
| Walkability | How safe convenient and efficient it is to walk in an urban environment |
| Smart growth policies | A policy to create sustainable communities by placing development and convenient locations and designing it to be more efficient and environmentally responsible |
| Ecological footprint | A cities impact on an environment expressed as the amount of land required to sustain its use of natural resources |
| Transportation oriented development | The creation of dense, walkable pedestrian oriented mixed use communities centered around or located near a transit station |
| Mixed use zoning | Permits multiple land uses in the same space structure |
| Traditional zoning | Separate zone space down land use cyber economic function, such as various categories of residential commercial or industrial |
| New urbanism | A school of thought closely associated with smart growth, advocating for policies and designs practices that support multiple transition options, the preservation of historic buildings and respect for a local ecology |
| Slow growth cities | Cities or planners have used smart growth policies to decrease the rate of which cities grow outward |
| Urban growth boundary | A border at the cities edge that defines where a new development can take place |
| Green belt | A rank of Parkland, agricultural land or other types of open space maintained around an urban area to limit sprawl |
| De facto segregation | Segregation that resulted from the residential settlement patterns rather than from prejudicial laws |
| Redlining | When a lending institution such as the bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhoods, racial or ethnic makeup |
| Blockbusting | Promotes fear of minorities and the discriminatory belief the houses in diverse or African-American neighborhoods were not as valuable as those in other areas |
| Zones of abandonment | The result of years of red lining block, busting and filtering |
| Filtering | The process of neighborhood change in which house is vacated by more affluent groups passes down the income scale to lower income group |
| Inclusionary zoning laws | Create affordable housing by offering incentives for developers to set aside a minimum percentage of new housing construction to be allocated for low income, renters or buyers |
| Land tenure | The legal rights as defined by a society associated with owning land |
| Eminent domain | A government’s right to take privately owned property for public use or interest |
| Environmental injustice | A.k.a. environmental racism is used to describe how communities of color and the poor are likely to be exposed to environmental burdens such as air pollution or contaminated water |
| Urban renewal | A term associated with the nationwide movement that developed the United States in the 50s and 60s when cities were given massive federal grants to tear down, clear out bowling neighborhoods and former industrial zones as a way to rebuild downtown |
| Gentrification | To improve and rebuild downtown areas or inner city neighborhoods |
| White flight | |
| Restrictive covenant |
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