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Annexation

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

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

Central business district

The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered.

City

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit.

Combined statistical area

In the United States, two or more contiguous core based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns.

Concentric zone model

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

Core based statistical area

In the United States, the combination of all metropolitan statistical areas and micropolitan statistical areas

Council of government

Cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the local governments in a metropolitan area in the United States.

Density gradient

The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery.

Edge city

A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.

Filtering

A process of change in the use of the house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment.

Gentrification

A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low income, renter occupied area to a predominantly middle class, owner occupied area.

Greenbelt

A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.

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.

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.

Multiple nuclei model

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.

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.

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.

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.

Redlining

A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.

Rush hour

The four consecutive 15 minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic.

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.

Smart growth

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

Social area analysis

Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area.

Sprawl

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zoning ordinance

A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.