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Vocabulary for chapter 13 of The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography

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Annexation   Legally adding land area to a city in the United States  
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Census tract   Area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods  
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Central business district (CBD)   Area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered  
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City   Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit  
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Combined statistical area (CSA)   In the United States, two or more contiguous core-based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns  
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Concentric zone model   Model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings  
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Core based statistical area (CBSA)   In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan area in the United States  
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Density gradient   Change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery  
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Edge City   Large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area  
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Filtering   Process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment  
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Food desert   Area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain  
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Gentrification   Process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area  
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Greenbelt   Ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area  
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Megalopolis   Continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States  
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Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)   In the United States, an urbanized area 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.  
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Micropolitan statistical area (µSA)   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  
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Multiple nuclei model   Model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities  
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