APHug Unit 6 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. A movement in urban planning to promote mixed-use commercial and residential development and pedestrian-friendly, community-oriented cities
  2. 5. Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants
  3. 6. Cities that, because of their geographic location, act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas
  4. 7. Rule that states that the population of any given town should be inversely proportional to its rank in the country’s hierarchy when the distribution of cities according to their sizes follows a certain pattern
  5. 9. Geographical centers of activity
  6. 12. A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapidated centers of poverty, as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources
  7. 14. A circular-city model that characterizes the role of the automobile in the post-industrial era
  8. 17. A country’s leading city, with a population that is disproportionately greater than other urban areas within the same country
  9. 18. The market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves
  10. 19. Centers of economic, cultural, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce
  11. 20. Cities with a population of over 20 million people
  12. 21. district The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge
  13. 22. Within the United States, an urban area consisting of one or more whole county unites, usually containing several urbanized areas, or suburbs, that all act together as a coherent economic whole
Down
  1. 2. A model or urban land use that places the central business district in the middle, with wedge-shaped sectors radiating outward from the center along transportation corridors
  2. 3. Type of urban form wherein cities have numerous centers of business and cultural activity instead of one central place
  3. 4. The process of expansive suburban development over large areas spreading out from a city, in which the automobile provides the primary source of transportation
  4. 8. - Period characterized by the rapid social and economic changes in manufacturing and agriculture that occurred in England during the late 18th century and rapidly diffused to other parts of the developed world
  5. 10. model Model that describes urban environments as a series of rings of distinct land uses radiating out from central core, or central business district
  6. 11. Real estate agents and developers encouraged affluent white property owners to sell their homes and businesses at a loss by stoking fears that their neighborhoods were being overtaken by racial or ethnic minorities
  7. 13. A large, rapidly growing city that is suburban in character but resembles population totals or large urban areas
  8. 15. The trend of middle- and upper-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitation much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods
  9. 16. Cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment
  10. 20. Cities with a population of over 10 million people