Unit 6 Vocab Quiz

the geographical area that contains the space an individual interacts with on a daily basis

• Beaux Arts

• Edge city

• Action Space

• Primate City

This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments that stressed the progress, freedom, and national unity.

• Megalopolis

• Gentrification

• Urban Revitalization

• Beaux Arts

As early as 1900, real estate agents and developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities

• White Flight

• Node

• Action Space

• Blockbusting

According to the geographer John R. Borchert, American cities have undergone five major epochs, or periods of development shaped by the dominant forms of transportation and communication at the time. These include sail-wagon epoch (1790-1830), iron horse epoch ( 1830-1870), steel rail epoch (1870-1920), auto-air-amenity epoch (1920-1970), and satellite-electric-jet propulsion and high-technology epoch (1970-present).

• Borchert's Epochs

• Urban Sprawl

• White Flight

• Inner-City Decay

The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge.

• Rank-Size Rule

• Forward Capital

• Action Space

• Central Business District

A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations.

• Concentric -Zone Model

• Central Business District

• Rank-Size Rule

• Central-Place Theory

Movement in the environmental design that drew directly from the beaux arts school. Architects from this movement strove to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride, which many feared was absent from the frenzied new industrial world.

• City Beautiful Movement

• Hinterland

• Edge city

• Environmental Justice

Cities established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.

• Urban Sprawl

• Gateway City

• Colonial City

• Megalopolis

Model

Model that describes urban environments as a series of rings of distinct land uses radiating out from a central core, or central business district.

• Megacities

• Central Business District

• Megalopolis

• Concentric -Zone Model

Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment.

• World City

• Edge city

• Primate City

• Central Business District