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31 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 US bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in a urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.
- Areas (usually neighborhoods) that are sectioned off for the US Census |
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Central Business DIstrict
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The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
- Simple - Seattle, or Tacoma Washington |
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City
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An Urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.
- Minneapolis-Saint Paul |
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Combined Statistical Area
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In the US, two or more contiguous core-based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns
- Seattle-Tacoma |
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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
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In the US, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas.
- Combo of places with 5,000+ people |
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Council of Government
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A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local government 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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Food Desert
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An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain.
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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 park, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
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Megalopolis
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A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.
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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 US, all of the combined statistical areas plus all 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% 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.
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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 lifestyle 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 participation in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics
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Urban Area
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A dense core of census tracts, densely settle suburbs, and low-density land that links the dense suburbs with the core.
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Urban Cluster
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In the United States, an urban area with with between 2,500-5,000 people
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Urbanized Area
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In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 people
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Zoning Ordinace
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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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