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African City Model   City model found in African cities with three different CBDs. The impact that European Colonialism has had is clearly evident.  
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Latin American City Model   City model found in Latin America that takes aspects of the concentric zone model and the sector model. Latin American CBDs are connected to a "mall" through a "spine."  
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Southeast Asian City Model   City model found in Southeast Asian cities where Focus is often a former colonial port zone (former colonizers wanted to trade with these countries).  
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Galactic City Model   It consists of an inner city, surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas and tied together by transportation nodes.  
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Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model   A city is a complex structure that includes more than one center (nodes) around which activities revolve.  
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Hoyt Sector Model   A city develops in a series of sectors, usually along transportation lines.  
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Burgess Concentric-Zone Model   A city grows outward from a central area in a series of concentric rings.  
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Central Business District (CBD)   The main business and commercial area of a town or city.  
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Blockbusting   Real estate agents would convince white families to sell their houses cheap by stirring up concern that African-American families would soon move into a neighborhood,then sell for a profit. Promoted fear of minorities.  
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Disamenity Zone   The very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to city services (amenities).  
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Environmental Injustice   When people are disproportionately impacted by environmental factors because of discrimination.  
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Gentrification   The renovations and improvements conforming to middle-class preferences.  
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Redlining   When a lending institution such as a bank refuses to offer home loans on the basis of a neighborhood’s racial or ethnic makeup.  
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Slum   A squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.  
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Squatter Settlement   An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own. Many of these are also shantytowns, or collections of makeshift shelters built of scrap metal and lumber.  
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Urban Renewal   Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site and build new roads and utilities and then turn the land over to private developers.  
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Zone of Abandonment   Areas that have been deserted in a city due to lack of jobs, declines in land values, and falling demand.  
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Housing Discrimination   The illegal practice of denying an individual or group the right to buy or rent a home based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.  
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Housing Affordability   Looks at the availability of housing that is affordable for people in every income bracket.  
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Local Food Movement   Encouraging people to eat foods which are grown or farmed relatively close to the places of sale and preparation.  
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