APHG unit 6 vocab

Gentrification

Renovating houses in low income inner city areas making it no longer affordable.

World City

City exerting influence beyond it’s natural boundaries

Rank-Size Rule

Population of a city is inversely proportional to it’s rank in urban hierarchy

Threshold

Population size necessary for a service to exist/make profit

New Urbanism

Urban planning promoting mixed use of land

Shantytown

Informal settlement of impoverished people

Edge City

Suburb growing on economic core

Farmland Protection Policy Act

Gov policies preventing agricultural land from being developed.

urban renewal

Fixing up city areas to make them better place to live/work.

Urban Sprawl

Unplanned expansion of urban areas into rural areas.

Infilling

Population density at center increase by building on underused/wasted land.

Megalopolis

Chain of interconnected cities.

Filtering

High value housing occupied by low income residents.

Primate city

Largest city is twice as large as the next largest.

Megacity

City with 10 million+ people

Metacity

City with over 20 million people

Forward Capital

Capital City relocated to encourage development in underdeveloped regions.

Boomburb

Large, fast growing suburb.

Infromal Economy

economic activities not regulated by the gov.

Rural

Area outside of cities

Greenbelt

Land maintained to limit urban sprawl in a area.

Scattered Developments

homes/buildings that are spread out

Exurb

Residential area outside the city

Urbanization rate

The percentage of people living in urban areas compared to rural.

Central Place

Provides services for the surrounding area.

Suburbanization

People moving from city to suburb

Brownfield

Abandoned industrial property that’s potentially hazardous/pollutant and needs cleanup before restoration.

Urbanization

Developing towns and cities