Urban Land Use Vocab

4. of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
7. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
8. model-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.
9. business district-The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
11. model-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.
14. settlement-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. Development- Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

1. nuclei model-A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
2. ordinance-A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
3. continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.
5. Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.
6. zone model-A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
10. Area-A central city and its surrounding built-up suburbs. In the United States, an area is considered urbanized if it has at least 50,000 inhabitants.
12. housing-Government-owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s income.
13. city-A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.