History of the City

1. a small bus or car following a regular route along which it picks up and discharges passengers, originally charging each passenger five cents.
5. the movement of whites, especially middle-class whites, from neighborhoods undergoing racial integration.
6. extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style.
8. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
10. the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions.
12. the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
14. a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
17. a shantytown in or near a city, especially in Brazil; slum area.
18. a jumbled cluster or mass of varied parts.
19. an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.

2. a technique for establishing the distance between any two points, or the relative position of two or more points, by using such points as vertices of a triangle or series of triangles.
3. a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.
4. an extensive urban area resulting from the expansion of several cities or towns so that they coalesce but usually retain their separate identities.
7. public or group transportation, as by automobile, van, or minibus, organized to relieve the congestion of mass transportation.
9. rule self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.
11. A line or curve that shows the relation between the rent economic activities are willing to pay for land and the distance of the land from the point of attraction.
12. worldwide integration and development.
13. the concentration of administrative power in a central government, authority, etc.
15. Federal Housing Administration.
16. the branch of physical geography dealing with mountains.
20. the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.