Chapter 13- Urban Patterns

Define Annexation

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

• The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site and deposing it where it will not enter the atomsphere

• An area delineated by the U.S Bureau of the census for which statistics are publishied

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

Define Carbon Capture and Storage

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

• The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site and deposing it where it will not enter the atomsphere

• An area delineated by the U.S Bureau of the census for which statistics are publishied

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

Define Census Tract

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

• The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site and deposing it where it will not enter the atomsphere

• An area delineated by the U.S Bureau of the census for which statistics are publishied

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

Define Central Business District (CBD)

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

• The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site and deposing it where it will not enter the atomsphere

• An area delineated by the U.S Bureau of the census for which statistics are publishied

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

Define Central City

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

• An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-concerning unit known as municipality.

• The change in Density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

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

Define Combined Statistical area (CSA)

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

• An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-concerning unit known as municipality.

• The change in Density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

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

Define Density Gradient

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

• An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-concerning unit known as municipality.

• The change in Density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

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

Define Edge City

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

• An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-concerning unit known as municipality.

• The change in Density in an urban area from the center to the periphery

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

Define Filtering

• A process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

• A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area

• An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they don't own

• A continuous urban complex in the northeastern U.S

Define Gentrification

• A process of change in the use of a house from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment

• A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly middle-class, owner occupied area

• An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they don't own

• A continuous urban complex in the northeastern U.S