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Annexation |
Legally adding land area to a city in the United States. |
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Census tract |
An area delineated by the US 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 |
The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
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City |
An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit. |
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Combined statistical area |
In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns. |
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Concentric zone model |
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 |
In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas |
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Council of government |
Cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States. |
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Density gradient |
The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. |
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Edge city |
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. |
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Filtering |
A process of change in the use of the house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment. |
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Gentrification |
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 |
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 |
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 |
And 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Housing owned by the government; in the United States, it is rented to residence with low incomes, and the runs are set at 30% of the families' incomes. |
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Redlining |
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 |
The four consecutive 15 minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic. |
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Sector model |
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 |
Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. |
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Social area analysis |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The United States, a central city plus it's contiguous built up suburbs. |
The United States, a central city plus it's contiguous built up suburbs. |
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Zoning ordinance |
A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community. |
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