Urban Vocabulary APHG

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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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Galactic Peripheral Model

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a process of converting an urban neighborhood from a underclass rent filled neighborhood to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area

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Gentrification

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a process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines

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Redlining

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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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Concentric Zone Model

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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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Informal/squatter Settlement

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

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density gradient

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a large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. It has its own CBD but still connected to the larger urban area

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Edge city

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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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Sector Model

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development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

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Sustainable Development

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the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

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Central Business District/downtown