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Ch 13 KI 1 & 2
Term | Definition |
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Central Business District (CBD) | The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered |
Food Desert | An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain |
Zoning Ordinances | A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community |
Concentric Zone Model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings |
Disamenity Sector | The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not connected to regular city services and are controlled by criminal factions |
Galactic City | A mini edge city that is connected to another city by beltways or highways |
Sector Model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district |
Multiple Nuclei Model | A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities |
Census Tracts | An area delineated by the US Bureau of the Census for which statistics and published |
Social Area Analysis | Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic backgrounds, and lifestyles live within an urban area |
Squatter Settlements | An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they not own or rent and erect homemade structures |