APHG Unit 6 Vocab

Agglomeration

The process of collecting or gathering diverse elements into a single mass, or concentrated area

Blockbusting

An unethical and illegal real estate practice in which agents panic white property owners to sell there land for very cheap by spreading rumors.

Boomburb

A rapidly growing, large suburban city with over 100,000 residents, not a major city, inside a metropolitan area.

De Facto Segregation

is the separation of people based on race, ethnicity, or social class that happens "by fact" or in reality, rather than by legal requirement

Disamenity

disamenity is

a feature, condition, or location that reduces the desirability, quality of life, or economic value of an area

Ecological footprint

An ecological footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and water required to support an individual, organization, or population's consumption and absorb their waste, usually measured in global hectares

Edge City

A large urban area situated on the outskirts of a city, typically by a major road

Ex: Plano, outskirts of Dallas

Exurb

a district outside a city, especially a prosperous area beyond the suburbs.

Ex: Mellissa, Anna, Argyle (exurbs of texas)

Favela

A Brazilian shack, or slum, a low income, densely populated shantytown

Gentrification

Gentrification is

ageographical process of urban transformationwhere higher-income individuals and investment move into historically disinvested, working-class neighborhoods

Greenbelts

A greenbelt is

a designated policy-based planning tool, consisting of a ring of protected open space, agriculture, or parks surrounding an urban area.

Christlars central place theory

explaining the size, number, and distribution of settlements based on how they provide goods and services to surrounding areas

Galactic city model

a post-industrial, automobile-dependent city where the central business district (CBD) has decentrated, making edge cities

Gravity model

model used to predict the interaction (migration, trade, traffic) between two places based on their population size and distance

Harris and ullman multiple nuclei model

theory of urban land use and structure proposed by geographers C.D. Harris and E.L.Ullman in 1945

Hoyt sector model

suggests that people will live in the different sectors based on income levels

Latin American city model

Urban structure combining radical sectors and concentric zones, heavily influenced by colonial history

Megacities

A metropolitan area or urban agglomeration with a total population of 100 mil

Meta Cities

an massive, sprawling urban agglomeration—often a conurbation of multiple cities and suburbs—with a total population exceeding 20 million people.

Mixed Land Use

Combining residential, commercial, and recreational spaces in close proximity.

Primate City

the largest city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy

an urban planning principle stating that in a given country, the

-th largest city will be roughly 1/n over the second largest city