Chaoter 5: The Emergence of the Multicentered Region

nouveaux riches

industrialists who had recently acquired fortunes

conspicuous consumption

according to Thornstein Veblen (1899), space in suburban homes was used as a symbol of “excess” and the ability to afford it

satellite cities

separate towns developed by large businesses who moved their operations outside the city

fordism

the political, economic, and cultural conjuncture that led to a society domestically producing and consuming mass quantities of goods with a large population engaged in assembly-line factory work and active union membership

deindustrialization

the process of an area (e.g. the U.S.) losing jobs to locations outside of the country as labor outsourcing led corporations to set up shop in countries where wages were lower and workers were more docile

population deconcentration

refers to when population growth is greater for metropolitan areas outside city centers rather than inside them

informal economy

the combination of “off the books” workers, goods produced in unregulated factories with non-unionized and undocumented laborers, goods and services produced and exchanged for bater and without regulation on the streets

gig economy

people who work part-time without benefits or medical insurance

exclusionary zoning

local control over land use and building codes, enabling individual communities to prohibit the building of low or moderately priced housing within the regional counties and towns of the MCMR

growth poles

more specialized research and development centers often linked with manufacturing and are located near university facilities

fully urbanized county

a net employing region with a labor force of over 1 million

good business climate

the absence of unions, tax breaks to business, and a general “hands-off” policy of minimal government regulation