Across
- 3. In the United States, an urban area with at least 50,000 inhabitants. (2 words)
- 7. Government-owned housing rented to low-income people. (2 words)
- 9. The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. (3 words)
- 10. Legally adding land area to a city in the United States.
- 11. A dense core of census tracts, densely settled suburbs, and low-density land that links the dense suburbs with the core. (2 words)
- 12. a type of statistical area. An urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhabitants, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties tied to the city.
- 15. 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.(2 words)
- 16. An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self-governing unit. (2 words)
- 18. a statistical area 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.
- 21. In the United States, two or more contiguous core-based statistical areas tied together by commuting patterns. (3 words)
- 24. The four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic. (2 words)
- 25. 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. (2 words)
Down
- 1. In the United States, an urban area with between 2,500 and 50,000 inhabitants. (2 words)
- 2. The change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery. (2 words)
- 4. Statistical analysis used to identify where people of similar living standards, ethnic background, and lifestyle live within an urban area.(3 words)
- 5. A node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area. (2 words)
- 6. A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic disadvantages.
- 8. 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. (2 words)
- 13. Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland. (2 words)
- 14. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area.
- 17. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings. (3 words)
- 19. 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. Also called peripheral model
- 20. Development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built- up area.
- 22. a residential or commercial area situated within an urban area but outside the central city.
- 23. A continuous urban complex in the northeastern United States.