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| Sprawl | Unrestricted growth of housing and development without urban planning
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| Urban Infill | The construction of new buildings in underutilized land lots within urban areas
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| Boomburbs | An outlying residential district of a city that is expanding rapidly.
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| Periphery Country | Tends to be less-developed countries that are economically poor
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| SemiPeriphery Country | Countries lower than core but higher than periphery
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| Mega city | A city with a population of over 10 million people
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| Meta city | A city with a population of over 20 million people
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| Edge Cities | A relatively large urban area situated on the outskirts of a city
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| Exurbs | Residential communities that extend past suburbs
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| Filtering (Urban development) | Process of subdivision of houses and occupany by successive waves of lower income
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| Global cities | Very influential outside their national boundaries
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| Central Place Theory | Used to explain distribution of cities across a region
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| Multiple Nuclei Model | More than one center
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| Concentric Zone Model | Model used to show that social groups
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| Galactic City Model | CBD are surrounded by smaller cities that often copy the functions of a CBD
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| Griffin Ford Model | CBD includes market and high quality jobs
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| Urban Hierarchy | A ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions
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| Sector Model | Model used to show urban development that is based on sectors
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| Smart Growth Policies | Laws that are more sustainable friendly and focus on building environmentally friendlier developments
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| New Urbanism | Encourage local community development and sustainable growth (urban)
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| Greenbelts | A ring of land
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| Slow Growth Cities | Urban communities where the planners have put into placement growth initiatives to decrease the rate at which the city groups
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| Zoning Ordinances | A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
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| Invasion and Succession | Process by which new groups to a city move to and dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupier by older groups
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| Suburbanization of Business | The movement of businesses to the suburbs to take advantage of a large labor force
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| Municipal | A city or town that has corporate status and local government at a low price
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| Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white people to sell their houses because persons of color will move in the area
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| Redlining | Racially discrimitory, illegal practice of devaluing homes in racially mixed neighborhoods
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| Gentrification | The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of poorer residents
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| Zones of Abandonment | Areas that have been deserted in a city for economic or environmental reasons (Urban areas that do not have structures)
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| Brownfield | A property which has the presence or potential to be a hazardous waste, pollutant, or a contaminant
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| Urban Redevelopment | Nodal Cities
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| Suburbanization | People moving from cities to move to more residential areas, usually on the outskirts of the city
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| Urbanization | The process by which people live and are employed in a city
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