Ap human Geo Urban Test

Urban Sprawl

Expansion of Low density urban areas around a city. New urbanism a modern approach to planning and developing cities and communities that value walkability, attracting diverse incomes and access to public spaces.

Blockbusting

Rapidly changing racial or class composition of a neighborhood that occurs when real estate agents persuade residents to sell homes because of fear that another race or class of people is moving into the neighborhood.

Gentrification

Renewal or rebuilding of a lower income neighborhood into a middle to upper class neighborhood, which results in driving up property values and rents in the dispossession of lower income residents.

Redlining

Discriminatory real estate practice (now illegal) That prevents minorities from getting loans to purchase homes or property in predominantly white neighborhoods. The practice derived its name from the red lines drawn on maps.

Primate City

The lead city in a country in terms of size and influence

Rank Size Rule

Observed statistical relationship that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. For example, second largest city is half of the population of largest city.

Central Business District (CBD)

The zone of a city where businesses cluster and around which a city and its infrastructure are typically built.

Spaces of Consumption

Physical or virtual locations- such as malls, cafes or online platforms designed to encourage buying behaviors.

Bid-Rent Theory

The premise that the price and demand for land will go up the closer it is to the city.

Urban Ghetto

Densely popuated, segregated neighborhood typically within inner cities where minority ethnic or racial groups are concentrated due to social economic or legal pressure.

Squatter Settlement

Unplanned, informal residential areas where residents lack legal land, typically found on urban periphery or LDC’s.

Central Place Theory

Walter Christaller’s theory that the size and locations of cities, towns and villages are logically and regularly distributed.

Threshold

The minimum amount of people needed to support a service or business

Range

The maximum distance consumers are willing to travel to obtain a good or service.

Megacities

A large city with more than 10 million people in it.