AP Human geography Unit 6 Quizs

Harris- Ullman multiple-nuclei model

• describes the layout of a city, based on Chicago. It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city

• last half of the twentieth century, represents the post-industrial city, many suburban CBDs have become specialized toward a particular sector

• Blends traditional Latin American culture with the forces of globalization. The CBD is dominant; it is divided into a market sector and a modern high-rise sector. The elite residential sector is on the extension of the CBD in the "spine". The end of the spine of elite

• Communities that use smart growth and green building techniques to create neighborhoods that are economically thriving and environmentally responsible

Counter-urbanization
(deurbanization)

• The net loss of population from cities to smaller towns and rural areas.

• Benefits one species and is neutral for the other

• A community's collection of basic industries.

• Power of a government to take private property for public use.

Edge cities

• More than one type of zoning, such as a condominium that has residential and commercial units.

• A new term used to describe cities that have 20 million or more people

• Number of dwelling units per unit of area, a high amount means that there may be overcrowding.

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

Walkability/ Pedstrian Cities

• A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.

• development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs

• Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.

• The overall level of comfort, access, enjoyment, and connectivity of an area that facilitates walking (access to stores, restaurants, parks, etc.)

Census

• Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.

• Made up of facilities, services, and communication systems water, power, and schools

• An official count of the population

• the impact of a person or community on the environment, expressed as the amount of land required to sustain their use of natural resources.

Zones of Abandonment

• Contaminated industrial or commercial sites that may require environmental cleanup before they can be redeveloped or expanded

• spread of suburbs away from the core city

• The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents.

• Areas that no longer have value to investors and are abandoned by businesses

Greenbelts

• The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents.

• Areas that no longer have value to investors and are abandoned by businesses

• Area of a city inhabited permanently by slums, which often evolve from squatter settlements

• A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.

Sprawl

• Mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to maximize access to public transport, and often incorporates features to encourage transit ridership. A TOD neighborhood typically has a center with a transit station or stop (train station, metro station, tram stop,

• Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants.

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

• 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

Peripheral Model of Cities

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

• The focal point of the city is the colonial port zone combined with the large commercial district that surrounds it. McGee found no formal CBD but found seperate clusters of elements of the CBD surrounding the port zone: the government zone, the Western commercial zone, the alien commercial zone, and the mixed land-use zone with

• A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.

• A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.

Urban renewal

• 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

• Law that specifies how and for what purpose each parcel of private real estate may be used. Also called zoning code.

• An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

• Describes urban growth based on transportation technology