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AP Human Geo Ch. 13
AP Human Geography vocab chapter 13
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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; in urbanized area, census tracts corresponds roughly to neighborhoods. |
Concentric Zone Model | A model of internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. |
Council of Government | A cooperative agency consisting of representative local governments in a metropolitan area in the U.S. |
Density Gradient | The change in density in an urban area from the center periphery. |
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 occupancy to abandonment. |
Gentrification | A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a 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 often space to limit the sprawl of urban area. |
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) | in the U.S, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the country 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 internal structure of cites in which social groups are arranged around a collection of notes of activities. |
Peripheral Model | a model of north American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residences and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road. |
Public Housing | housing owned by the government, in the U.S, it is rented to residents with low income and the rents are set at 30 percent of the families incomes. |
Redlining | a process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to loan money to purchase or improve property with the boundaries. |
Rush (or peak) hour | the four consecutive 15 minutes periods in the morning and eveing with the heaviest volumes of traffic. |
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 CBD. |
Smart Growth | legislation and regulation to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. |
Sprawl | development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contagious to the existing built-up area. |
Squatter Settlement | an area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures. |
Underclass | a group in society prevented from participating in the material benefit of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics. |
Urbanization | an increase in the percentage of people living in urban settlements. |
Urbanized area | in the US, a central city plus the contiguous built up suburbs. |
Urban Renewal | program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhood, acquire the property from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn land over to private developers. |
Zone Ordinance | a law that limits the permitted use of land and maximum density of development in a community. |