All the Unit 7 Vocab (Cities and Urban Land) regardless of the ch it falls into
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| Bid-rent theory | show 🗑
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| Blockbusting | show 🗑
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| show | In a city, the point with the greatest access to offices, Banks, stores, and other activities. It is the most distinguishing feature and functions as a central Marketplace, a major transportation note, and an administrative Center, and it offers high-level services and contains heavy pedestrian traffic
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| Census tract | show 🗑
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| show | The strength of an urban center in its capacity to attract producers and consumers to its facilities, a city's reach into the surrounding region
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| Central place theory | show 🗑
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| show | German geographer credited with developing central place theory
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| show | Conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics
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| City state | show 🗑
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| Colonial city | show 🗑
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| Commercialization | show 🗑
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| Commuter zone | show 🗑
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| Concentric zone model | show 🗑
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| Counter urbanization | show 🗑
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| show | the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city; the process of dispersing decision-making closer to the point of service or action
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| show | Accumulative and sustained decline of manufacturing activities in a regional or national economy, involving the loss of both firms and jobs
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| Early cities | show 🗑
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| Economic base | show 🗑
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| Edge city | show 🗑
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| Employment structure | show 🗑
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| Entrepot | show 🗑
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| show | In cities, areas that have concentrated populations of a particular ethnic group, such as Chinatown
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| Exurbanite | show 🗑
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| show | slum communities
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| Female headed household | show 🗑
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| show | a landscape of cultural festivities
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| show | Capitals that are intended to help move a population towards less populous areas
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| Gateway city | show 🗑
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| show | The social norms and behaviors that are expected of males or females
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| show | The trend of middle and upper income Americans moving into City centres and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods
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| Ghetto | show 🗑
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| Great Migration | show 🗑
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| High tech corridors | show 🗑
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| show | The market area surrounding an urban center which that urban center serves
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| Hydraulic civilization | show 🗑
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| Indigenous city | show 🗑
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| show | building on empty parcels of land within a checkerboard pattern of development
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| show | Employment that is labor intensive, absorbs the remainder of the work force, and is open to nearly everyone but offers very low standard of living
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| Infrastructure | show 🗑
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| Inner city decay | show 🗑
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| show | process by which new immigrants to a city move to dominate or take over areas or neighborhoods occupied by older immigrant groups
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| Islamic City | show 🗑
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| show | Cities in this area that owe much of their structure to colonialism, the rapid rise of industrialization, and continual rapid increase in population. Similar to other colonial cities, they also demonstrate distinctive sectors of industrial or residential development radiating out from the central business district, where most industrial and financial activities occur
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| show | traveling from one suburb to another and going from home to work
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| show | Cities that develop in Europe during the medieval period and that contains such unique features as extreme density of development with narrow buildings and winding streets, and Renee church that prominently marks the city center, and high wall surrounding the city center that provide defense against attack
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| Mega cities | show 🗑
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| show | Several metropolitan areas that were originally separate but that have joined together to form a large sprawling Urban complex
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| Metropolitan area | show 🗑
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| Modern Architecture | show 🗑
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| show | Type of urban form where in cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place
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| show | A job in a particular industry that has a multiplier of 2.0, meaning that this one job actually results in two jobs in the economy. The original industrial job as well as an additional non base job
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| New Urbanism | show 🗑
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| show | the area or region around or near some place or thing
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| show | A cluster of office buildings, usually located along an interstate, often forming the nucleus of an edge city
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| show | A single intersection with the greatest access, usually located at the intersection of two main streets
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| show | Cities laid out along more symbolic lines, often rich with symbolic elements, such as cosmological principles
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| Postindustrial city | show 🗑
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| show | A reaction in architectural design to the feeling of sterile alienation that many people get from modern architecture. This uses older, historical Styles and a sense of light hardness and eclecticism. Buildings combined Pleasant looking forms and playful colors to convey new ideas and to Great spaces that are more people friendly than their modernist predecessors
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| Primate city | show 🗑
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| show | the practice in which real estate brokers guide prospective home buyers towards or away from certain neighborhoods based on their race
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| Rank-size-rule | show 🗑
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| Redlining | show 🗑
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| Restrictive covenants | show 🗑
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| Sector model | show 🗑
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| show | The process that results from suburbanization when affluent individuals leave the city center for homogeneous Suburban neighborhoods. This process isolates those individuals who cannot afford to consider relocating to Suburban neighborhoods and must remain in certain pockets of the Central City
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| Nucleated Settlement | show 🗑
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| show | MOVE CARD
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| show | MOVE CARD
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| show | MOVE CARDS
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| Slum | show 🗑
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| Social structure | show 🗑
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| Specialization | show 🗑
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| Squatter settlement | show 🗑
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| show | the way in which streets are designed;
grid: streets are arranged in a grid-like fashion; dendritic: characterized by fewer streets organized based on the amount of traffic each is intended to carry; access: provides access to a subdivision, housing project, or highway; control: allows highways or housing projects to be supervised
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| show | Residential communities, located outside of City centers, that are usually relatively homogeneous in terms of population
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| show | Movement of upper and middle-class people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts to escape pollution as well as deteriorating social conditions (perceived and actual). In North America, the process began in the early nineteenth century and became a mass phenomenon by the second half of the twentieth century
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| Symbolic landscape | show 🗑
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| show | a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety
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| Threshold/Range | show 🗑
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| Town | show 🗑
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| Underclass | show 🗑
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| show | a situation in which people work less than full time even though they would prefer to work more hours
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| Urban growth rate | show 🗑
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| Urban function | show 🗑
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| show | A ranking of settlements, Hamlet, village, town, City, Metropolis, according to their size and economic functions
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| Urban hydrology | show 🗑
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| show | the form and structure of cities, including street patterns and the size and shape of buildings
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| Urbanization | show 🗑
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| Urban population COREECTED | show 🗑
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| show | Centers of economic, cultural, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together controlled the Global Systems of finance and commerce
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| Zone in transition | show 🗑
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| Zoning laws CORRECTED | show 🗑
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| Agglomeration | show 🗑
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