Unit 7 Vocab – Cities & Urban Land-Use Patterns

Agglomeration

2. African city model

3. Blockbusting

4. Boomburb

5. Brownfields

6. Basic Industries

7. Business services

8. Central business district (CBD)

9. Central place

10. Central place theory (Christaller)

11. Consumer services

12. Concentric Zone Model (Burgess)

13. De facto segregation

14. Disamenity

15. Exurb

16. Footloose industry

17. Gravity model

18. Hinterland

19. Nonbasic industries

20. Primate city

21. Primate city rule

22. Public services

23. Range (of a service)

24. Rank-size rule

25. Service

26. Threshold

27. Annexation

28. Bid Rent Theory

29. Blockbusting

30. Commuter zone

31. Density Gradient

32. Disamenity sector

33. Edge city

34. Entrepot

35. Filtering

36. Food Desert

37. Gateway city

38. Gentrification

39. Greenbelt

40. Latin American City Model

41. New Urbanism

42. Megaolopolis/conurbation

43. Megacity

44. Metacity

45. Metropolitan statistical area (MSA)

46. Micropolitan statistical area

47. Mixed-use zoning

48. Mixed-use development

49. Multiple nuclei model (Harris & Ullman)

50. Redlining

51. Sector Model (Hoyt)

52. Smart growth

53. Slow growth policies

54. Southeast Asia City Model

55. Urban Sprawl

56. Squatter settlement

57. Urbanization

58. Urban cluster

59. Urbanized area

60. Urban Realm Model

61. World Cities