Unit 6 First Two Columns

Boomburbs

• Rapidly growing suburban cities
• A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that 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.
• the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.
• The process of population movement from within towns and cities to the rural-urban fringe.

Christaller's Central Place Theory

• A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that 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.
• Program in which cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods, acquire the properties from private members, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities, and turn the land over to private developers.
• geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.
• exact location

Disamenity Zones

• is a mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport
• a circular city model that has become popular with post-industrial cities. Galactic model has a commercial and economic central area which is often called the central business district or CBD is at the center of the city
• areas not connected to city services and under the control of drug lords and gangs
• the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities.

ecological footprint

• A ranking of settlements (hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis) according to their size and economic functions.
• the use of vacant land and property within a built-up area for further construction or development
• the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city.
• the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

Farmland protection policies

• Dominant city in terms of its role in the global political economy: center of the flow of information and capital
• A measure of how friendly an area is to walking.
• ability to be afforded; inexpensiveness.
• an act that discourages federal activities that would convert farmland to non-agricultural purposes

Gentrification

• A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area.
• ability to be afforded; inexpensiveness.
• geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.
• A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood

(Freebie) Pick anything (just about) and get the four points.

• Pick This One

• No, this one

• Mr. Plummer give me the 4 points.

• I do not want this one right.

Greenbelts

• the tendency of people or businesses and industry to locate outside the central city.
• all the energy used to perform an action, manufacture something or simply inhabit a building
• A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
• a model of urban land use conditioned by transportation routes radiating outward from a city center.

African City Model

• areas that have been deserted in a city for economic or environmental reasons
• municipality
• where the government is broken it multiple governments
• A model that consists of 3 CBD's, market zone, transnational business center, and development.

Harris-Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model

• where the government is broken it multiple governments
• ability to be afforded; inexpensiveness.
• A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
• all the energy used to perform an action, manufacture something or simply inhabit a building