APHG Chapter 15/16/17 Vocab

A city and its surrounding suburbs

• Urban Area

• Metropolitan area

• World City

• Primate City

• Edge City

A city and the surrounding area that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

• Urban Area

• Metropolitan area

• Urban Sprawl

• Edge City

• Primate City

Areas of poorly planned, low-density development surrounding a city

• Threshold

• Boomburb

• Urban Sprawl

• Squatter Settlement

• Brownfield

A type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

• Metacity

• Megacity

• Metropolitan area

• Edge City

• Urban Area

A suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

• Metacity

• Megacity

• World City

• Edge City

• Boomburb

A typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connect to the central city and suburbs

• Exurb

• Infill

• Megacity

• Metacity

• Range

Redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

• Exurb

• Infill

• Zoning

• Blockbusting

• Urban Growth Boundary

Explanation of size of cities within a country; states that the second-largest city will be one-half the size of the largest, the third largest will be one-third the size of the largest, and so on

• Multiple-Nuclei Model

• Concentric-Zone Model

• Rank-Size Rule

• Galactic City Model

• African City Model

The largest city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population size and importance

• Node

• World City

• Metacity

• Primate City

• Megacity

A theory used to describe the spatial relationships between cities and their surrounding communities

• Inclusionary Zoning Law

• Traditional zoning

• Mixed-Use Zoning

• Rank-Size Rule

• Central Place Theory