APHG Urban Unit Review

The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service.

• range
• hearth
• hinterland
• redlineing

The central city and its surrounding suburbs is known as a

• Megalopolis
• Zoning Laws
• Urban Morphology
• Urban Area

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

• Concentric Zone Model
• Griffen-Ford Latin American City Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

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

• Zone of Transition
• Combined Statistical Area
• Core Based Statistical Area
• Micropolitan Statistical Area

A model showing a CBD that is divided into three groups/sections: a colonial CBD, a periodic and informal market place and a traditional business center. The neighborhoods in this model are often based on ethnic connections and the periphery of the city is composed of squatter settlements due to rapid industrialization.

• Sector Model
• De Blij Sub-Saharan City Model
• Burgess' Model
• New Donut Model

Small county subdivisions, usually containing 5,000 persons, delineated by the U.S Census Bureau as areas of relatively uniform population characteristics, economic status, and living conditions.

• Census Tract
• Exurbs
• Suburbs
• Disamenity Sector

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

• Greenbelt
• Urban Land
• Green Land Usage
• Sprawl Limitation

A model of the internal structure of cities, created by Harris and Ullman, in which social groups are arranged around in a collection of nodes of activities

• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Concentric Zone Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

A model of North American urban areas consisting in an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a belt way or ring road.

• Peripheral Model
• New Donut Model
• Filtering
• Urban Area Model

A model of the internal structures of cites in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.

• Sector Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Zone in Transition
• Concentric Zone Model