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30 Cards in this Set
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Annexation
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Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.
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Census Tract
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An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.
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Central Business District (CBD)
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The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
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City
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An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.
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Combined Statistical Area (CSA)
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In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns.
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Concentric Zone Model
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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
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Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)
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In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas.
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Council of Government
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A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States.
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Density Gradient
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The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.
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Edge City
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A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
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Filtering
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A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment.
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Gentrification
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A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
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Greenbelt
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A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
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Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
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In the United States, a central city of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city.
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Micropolitan Statistical Area
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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.
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Multiple Nuclei Model
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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
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Peripheral Model
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A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
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Primary Census Statistical Area (PCSA)
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In the United States, all of the combined statistical areas plus all of the remaining metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas.
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Public Housing
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Housing owned by the government; in the United States, it is rented to residents with low incomes, and the rents are set at 30 percent of the families' incomes.
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Redlining
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A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
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Rush Hour
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The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic.
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Sector Model
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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 central business district (CBD).
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Smart Growth
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Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
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Social Area Analysis
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Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and life style live within an urban area.
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Sprawl
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Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
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Squatter Settlement
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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.
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Underclass
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A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics.
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Urban Renewal
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Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.
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Urbanized Area
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In the United States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs.
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Zoning Ordinance
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A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
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