Ch. 13 Vocabulary Review HG

The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic.

• rush hour

• urban area

• urban cluster

• suburb

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district.

• nuclei model

• galactic (or peripheral) model

• sector model

• filtering

Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

• sprawl

• smart growth

• sector model

• urban cluster

Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area.

• density gradient

• edge city

• urban cluster

• social area analysis

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

• sprawl

• suburb

• underclass

• urbanized area

1. A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city.

• suburb

• underclass

• urban area

• cluster

1. A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic disadvantages.

• urbanized class

• middle class

• underclass

• urban cluster

A dense core of census tracts, densely settled suburbs, and low-density land that links the dense suburbs with the core.

• urban cluster

• urban area

• suburb

• ethnoburb

In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants.

• urban area

• suburb

• urbanized area

• urban cluster

In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants.

• suburb

• urbanized area

• urban cluster

• ethnoburb