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Unit 6 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blockbusting | A practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners in a neighborhood to sell their homes by convincing them that the neighborhood is declining due to black families moving in |
| Boomburb (boomburg) | a place with more than 100,000 residents that is not a core city in a metropolitan area; a large suburb with its own government |
| Brownfields | properties whose use or development may be complicated by the potential presence of hazardous substances or pollutants |
| Built environment | The human-made space in which people live, work, and engage in leisure activities on a daily basis |
| Central Place Theory | a model, developed by Walter Christaller, that attempts to understand why cities are located where they are |
| Compact design | Development that grows up (in the form of taller buildings) rather than out (in the form of urban sprawl) |
| De facto segregation | Racial segregation that is not supported by law but is still apparent |
| Edge city | a concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment that developed in the suburbs, outside of a city’s traditional downtown or CBD |
| Environmental racism | Occurs when areas inhabited by low-income people of color are targeted for environmental contamination |
| Exclusionary zoning | Zoning that attempts to keep low- to moderate - income people out of a neighborhood |
| Exurb | a semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well-to-do families |
| Gentrification | The displacement of lower-income residents by higher-income residents as an area or neighborhood improves |
| Greenbelt | a zone of grassy, forested, or agricultural land separating urban areas |
| Infill development | the building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on vacant or underused parcels in already-developed areas |
| New Urbanism | An approach to city planning that focuses on fostering European-style cities of dense settlements, attractive architecture, and housing of different types and prices within walking distance to shopping, restaurants, jobs, and public transportation. |
| NIMBYs | “not in my backyard,” term for people who try to prevent the construction of affordable housing and other types of development in their neighborhood. |
| Perceived Density | the general impression of the estimated number of people present in a given area |
| Primate City | a city that is much larger than any other city in the country and that dominated the country’s economic, political, and cultural life |
| Range | In central place theory, the distance people will travel to acquire a good |
| Rank-size rule | The population of a settlement is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy (2nd largest has ½ population of largest city, 3rd has ⅓ population of largest, and so on) |
| Redlining | the practice of identifying high-risk neighborhoods on a city map and refusing to lend money to people who want to buy property in those neighborhoods |
| Smart growth | Policies that combat regional sprawl by addressing issues of population density and transportation |
| Sprawl | The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner |
| Squatter Settlements | An area of degraded, seemingly temporary, inadequate, and often illegal housing |
| Suburb | A populated area on the outskirts of a city |
| Threshold | In central place theory, the number of people required to support a business |
| Urban Heat Island | A mass of warm air in cities, generated by urban building materials and human activities, that sits over a city |
| Urban Renewal | Large-scale redevelopment of the built environment in downtown and older inner-city neighborhoods. |
| White Flight | the mass movement of white people from the city to the suburbs |
| World City | A city that is a control center of the global economy, in which major decisions are made about the world’s commercial networks and financial markets (also called a global city) |
| Zoning | the classification of land according to restrictions on its use and development |
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