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AP Human Chpt 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Annexation | Legally adding land area to a city in the United States. |
| Census Tract | An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published. |
| Concentric Zone Model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatiall arranged in a series of rings. |
| Council of Government | A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States. |
| Density Gradient | The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphey. |
| 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 anurban neighborhood froma predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area. |
| Greenbelt | A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area. |
| Metropolitan Statistical Area | (MSA) In the US, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city. |
| Micropolitan Statistical Area | An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is found, 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 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. |
| Public Housing | Housing owned by the government. |
| Redlining | A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improe property within the boundaries. |
| Rush Hour | The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic. |
| Sector Model | A mopdel of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the CBD. |
| Smart Growth | Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. |
| Sprawl | Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area. |
| Squatter Sttlement | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish redidences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
| Underclass | A group insociety prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a cariety of social and economic characteristics. |
| Urbanization | An increase in the percentage and in the number of people |
| Urban Renewal | Program in which cites identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developments. |
| Zoning Ordinance | A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |
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