Urban Land Use Vocabulary

3. Government-owned housing rented to low-income individuals, with rents set at 30 percent of the tenant’s income.
4. 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.
5. 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.
8. Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area.
10. The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
12. Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.
13. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
14. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.

1. A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
2. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.
6. City A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
7. 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.
9. 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.
11. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
15. A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.