Chapter 13 Vocabulary Quiz

a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)

• REDLING

• MEGALOPOLIS

• URBAN SPRAWL

• MSA

Area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

• CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

• METROPOLITIAN STATISTICAL AREA

• URBAN AREA

• SUBURB

A theory that explains the distribution of services, since 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

• URBAN CLUSTER

• URBAN AREA

• CENTRAL PLACE

• GRAVITY MODEL

An increase in the percentage of and the number of people living in urban settlements.

• URBAN RENEWAL

• SUBURBANIZATION

• RURALIZATION

• URBANIZATION

Clusters of large buildings away from the central business district

• Edge City

• Gated Community

• Strip Mall

• Suburban Sprawl

the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of lower-income people)

• Urban renewal

• Gentrification

• Redevelopment

• Suburbanization

A city which is greater than two times the next largest city in a nation (or contains over one-third of a nation's population) and usually very expressive of the national culture and often the capital city.

• Rank-Size Rule

• Megacity

• Primate City

• Conurbation

A pattern of settlements in a country such as the Nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlements.

• Urban Sprawl

• Suburbanization

• Primate City

• Rank-Size Rule

A process by which financial institutions refuse to lend money to people to purchase or improve property within certain boundaries.

• Redlining

• Predatory lending

• Reverse mortgage

• Credit scoring

Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations not contiguous to the existing built-up area

• Urban Renewal

• Urban Sprawl

• Gentrification

• Suburbanization