Unit 6 Vocab

A rule that states that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy.

• Forward Capital

• Filtering

• Rank-Size

• Urban Sprawl

The process of building up underused areas within a city.

• Infilling

• Redlining

• Shantytown

• Gentrification

Economic activity that is neither taxed or monitored by a government.

• Primate City

• Boomburb

• Forward Capital

• Informal Economy

The movement of people to towns and cities.

• Filtering

• Urbanization

• Suburbinization

• Gentrification

A city that has a population that is exponentially GREATER than the population of the NEXT largest city in that country.

• Blockbusting

• Shantytown

• Primate City

• Edge City 📮

The growth of residential areas on the outskirts of urban centers.

• Mega City

• Suburbanization

• Rural

• New Urbanism

When ppl of one ethnic group are frightened into selling their homes when they hear that a family of another ethnic group is moving in.

• Greenbelt

• Primate City

• Redlining

• Blockbusting

A city with a population of more that 10 million ppl.

• Metacity

• Megacity

• Megalopolis

• Boomburb

Sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities.

• Rural

• Metacity

• Shantytown

• Brownfield

A movement in urban planning that aims to reduce urban sprawl, increase affordable housing, and create livable neighborhoods.

• World City

• New Urbanism

• Primate City

• Gentrification