Unit 6 - Cities & Urban Land-Use

Economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases.

• Bid Rent Curve
• Central Place Theory
• Gravity Model
• Peripheral Model
• Sector Model

Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

• Business services
• Consumer services
• Personal services
• Producer services
• Public services

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

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

Area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

• Central Business District (CBD)
• Central place
• Clustered rural settlement
• Urbanized Area
• Edge City

States that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

• Zoning Ordinance

• Rank-size rule

• Law of the Indies

• Enclosure movement

• Central Place Theory

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

• Edge City
• City-state
• Megacity
• Megalopolis
• Primate city

Metropolitan area with more than 10 million people

• Megacity
• City-state
• Edge City
• Megalopolis
• Primate city

When the urbanized areas of 2+ cities merge together through suburban growth and expansion

• Megalopolis
• Megacity
• City-state
• Edge City
• Primate city

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

• Gentrification
• Filtering
• Annexation
• Conurbation
• New Urbanism

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

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