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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 delineateed by the U.S Bureau o fthe Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correpsond roughly to neighborhoods.
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Concentric zone model
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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatialy arranged in a series of rings.
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Consolidate Metropolitan Statistical Area
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In the United States, two or more adjacent metropolitan statistical areas with overlapping commuting patterns.
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Council of government
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A cooperative agency consisting of representatives of local governmetns 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 centrer to the periphery.
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Edge city
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A large node of office and retail activites on the edge of an urban area.
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Filtering
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Aprocess 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
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In the United States, a central city of at least 50,00 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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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 ruban areas consisting of an innner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
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Primary metropolitan statistical area
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In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area exceeding 1 million population located with in a consolidated metropolitan statistical area.
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Public housing
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Housing owned by the government; in the United States, is is rented to low-incomeresident, and the rents are set at 30 percent of the families' income
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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 eening 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 rgulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
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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 settlements
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An area within a city in a less developed country in which people ilegally 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 prevetned 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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Urbanization
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An increase in the percetnage and inthe number of people living in urban settlements.
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Urbanized area
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In the United States, a cental 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 denstiy of development in a community.
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