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AP HUG

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Urban   city  
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Site   absolute location  
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situation   relative location in reference to surrounding features  
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streetcar suburb   settlement outside of a city with streetcar lines  
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redevelopment   a set of activities intended to revitalize an area that has fallen on hard times  
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metropolis   A large and densely populated city  
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metropolitan statistical area   a region with at least one urbanized area as its core (in the US)  
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Micropolitan statistical area   a region with one or more urban clusters of at least 10,000 people as its core  
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suburb   a populated area on the outskirts of a city  
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Urbanization rate   The percentage of a nation's population living in towns and cities  
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metacities   regional population over 20 million  
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megacities   regional population over 10 million  
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suburbanization   The movement of people from urban core areas to the surrounding outskirts of a city  
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sprawl   The tendency of cities to grow outward in an unchecked manner  
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automobile cities   cities whose size and shape are dictated by and almost require individual automobile ownership  
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decentralize   in urban context, to move business operations from core city areas into outlying areas such as suburbs  
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edge city   nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities; “mini downtowns”, usually have tall buildings, concentrated retail, & few residences & are located near the convergence of major transportation routes  
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Boomburb   More than 100,000 residents that is not a core city: a suburb that has become a city because it got so big  
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infill development   the building of new retail, business, or residential spaces on vacant or underused parcels in already–developed areas  
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exurb   A semirural district located beyond the suburbs that is often inhabited by well–to–do families  
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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)  
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gated community   privately governed and highly secure residential area within the bounds of a city; often has a fence or gate surrounding it  
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Urban hierarchy   a ranking of cities, with the largest and most powerful cities at the top  
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rank–size rule   The population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy\n(City A– top; city B= 1/2A; City C= 1/3 A; City D= 1/4 A, etc)  
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Primate city   one city is much larger than any other city in the country and dominates the country's economic, political, and cultural life  
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Central Place Theory   model developed by Christaller, explains why cities are located where they are  
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Threshold   The number of people required to support a business (in central place theory)  
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Range   The distance people will travel to acquire a good (in central place theory)  
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Gravity Model   The idea that the closer two places are, the more they will influence each other  
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Concentric Zone Model/ Burgess Model    
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Hoyt Sector Model    
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Multiple–Nuclei Model (Harris & Ullman)    
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Galactic City Model (Peripheral model)    
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Urban Bid Rent Theory    
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Latin American city Model    
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Southeast Asian City Model    
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Gentrification   The displacement of lower–income residents by higher–income residents as an area or neighborhood improves  
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Sub–Saharan Africa City Model    
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Zoning regulations   laws that dictate how land can be used  
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fiscal squeeze   When city revenue cannot keep up with increasing demands for city services on decaying urban infrastructure  
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Built environment   human–made space in which people live, work, etc.  
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smart growth   policies that combat regional sprawl by addressing issues of population density and transportation  
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compact design   Development that grows up rather than out  
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diverse housing options   policy that encourages building quality housing for people and families at all life stages and income levels within a neighborhood  
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Mixed land use   interspersal of different types of development in a neighborhood (residential, business, entertainment, etc)  
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New Urbanism   an approach to city planning that focuses on fostering European–style cities of dense settlements, attractive architecture, and housing of different types within walking distance to shopping, jobs, and public transportation  
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greenbelt   a zone of grassy, forested, or agricultural land separating urban areas  
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slow–growth cities   a city that changes its zoning laws to decrease the rate at which the city spreads horizontally (decrease sprawl)  
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Redlining   practice of identifying high risk neighborhoods and refusing to lend money to people who want to buy property in these areas.  
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Blockbusting   a practice in which realtors persuade white homeowners to sell their homes by convincing them that the property values are decreasing because of black families moving in  
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white flight   The mass movement of white, middle class, people from the city to the suburbs  
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Environmental racism   When residential areas of low–income people of color are used for high contamination projects (like dumps, sewage, highways)  
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squatter settlements   temporary and illegal housing  
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Inclusionary zoning (IZ)   City planning that requires a certain amount of new construction to be affordable for people with low incomes  
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exclusionary zoning   Zoning that attempts to keep low & moderate income people out of a neighborhood  
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NIMBYs   not in my backyard: people who try to stop affordable housing in their neighborhood  
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urban renewal   large–scale redevelopment of the built environment in downtowns  
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fiscal imbalance   when a government spends more than it receives in taxes  
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fiscal zoning   The practice of using local land–use regulation to preserve the local property tax base  
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urban heat island   a mass of warm air in cities, generated by urban building materials and human activities, that sits in a city  
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urban footprint   The spatial extent of an urban area's impact on the natural environment  
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urban risk divide   the idea that natural disasters become an urban phenomenon as more people live in cities  
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Brownfields   Properties whose use or development may be complicated by the presences of hazardous substances or pollutants  
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