Cities and Urban Land Use Vocab Quiz

takes place when the

population of an urban area lives in poor

conditions.

• Slums

• Urban Poverty

• Squatter Settlements

• Urban Revitilization

development on the margins of cities,

dominated by crude dwellings and shelters

made from scrap materials

• Slums

• Squatter Settlements

• Urban Revitalization

• Urban Poverty

people illegally establish

residences on land they do not

own or rent and erect homemade

structures

• Slums

• Urban Poverty

• Urban Revitalization

• Squatter Settlements

an attempt to get people to

return to the city. This is usually accompanied by

blight removal, new shopping centers, and cultural

attractions.

• Slums

• Urban Poverty

• Squatter Settlements

• Urban Revitalization

electricity, clean water supplies, bridges,

roads, IT services, sewage, and others that

are expensive to maintain and expand.

• Class system

• Food desert

• infrastructure

• Urban Challenges

difficult to buy affordable or good-quality

fresh food. This ties in to socio-economic status

because those living in the poorest areas have

more exposure to fast food, cannot travel due

to transportation issues to find better food

options, and have more access to convenience

stores than grocery stores.

• Urban Challenges

• Food Desert

• Infrastructures

• Class system

are social divisions that maintain hierarchies and

ranks, reinforcing inequalities of economic, cultural, and

political power.

• Food Desert

• Infrastructure

• class system

• Urban Revitalization

how the poor are compared to

others in the country

• Absolute Poverty

• Relative Poverty

• Property Rights

living on less than $1 a day

• Absolute Poverty

• Relative Poverty

• Property Rights

a city with more than 10 million people

• Megacity

• Metacity