Chapter 13: Urban Patterns

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Across
  1. 2. In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,00 inhabitants
  2. 4. An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods
  3. 6. A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area
  4. 7. A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community
  5. 11. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities
  6. 12. A process of change in the use of a house, from a single-family owner occupancy to abandonment
  7. 13. The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery
  8. 19. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland
  9. 20. (PSA) In the United States, any CSA, any MSA not included in a CSA, or any μSA not included in a CSA
  10. 21. In the United States, any MSA or μSA
  11. 22. Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area
  12. 23. (CCS) The process of capturing waste CO2, transporting it to a storage site, and depositing it where it will not enter the atmosphere, normally underground
  13. 26. A residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city
  14. 29. An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures
  15. 30. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
  16. 31. The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic
  17. 32. A process by which financial institutions draw red-colored lines on a map and refuse to lend money for people to purchase or improve property within the lines
Down
  1. 1. In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants
  2. 3. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district
  3. 5. Legally adding land area to a city in the United States
  4. 8. (CSA) In the United States, two or more contiguous CBSAs tied together by commuting patterns
  5. 9. (CBD) The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered
  6. 10. A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road
  7. 14. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
  8. 15. (city) An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit known as a municipality
  9. 16. A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs
  10. 17. (MSA) In the United States, an urbanized area of at least 50,000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city
  11. 18. Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area
  12. 24. Government-owned housing rented to low-income individual, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant's income
  13. 25. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area
  14. 27. A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics
  15. 28. A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States