AP Human Geography Vocab. 13

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.

• Gentrification

• Concentric Zone Model

• Annexation

• Combined Statistical Area

• Redlining

• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

• Sprawl

• Megalopolis

An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.

• Micropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

• Census Tract

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Informal Settlement

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Central Place

• Economic Base

• Megalopolis

An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality.

• Sector Model

• Central City (city)

• Megalopolis

• Suburb

In the United States, two or more contiguous CBSAs tied together by commuting patterns.

• Urban Area

• Combined Statistical Area (CSA)

• Density Gradient

• Core-based Statistical Area (CBSA)

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

• Sector Model

• Concentric Zone Model

• Peripheral Model

• Social Area Analysis

In the United States, any MSA or ,uSA

• Gentrification

• Core-based Statistical Area (CBSA)

• Urban Area

• Public Housing

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

• Zoning Ordinance

• Volume

• Density Gradient

• Density

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

• Edge City

• Coastal City

• Central Place

• Primary Census Area (PSA)