Across
- 8. An urban area consists of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway ring or road. (19)
- 9. A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area. (20)
- 10. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. (18)
- 11. the rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in American cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging ethnic minorities to move to previously white neighborhoods (20)
- 13. The greater variety of people in urban settlements means more individual freedom for inhabitants (18)
- 15. an area of mixed commercial and residential land uses surrounding the CBD (19)
- 17. The minimum number of consumers a business needs in order to be profitable (18, CC, with range)
- 25. the commercial and business center of a city. (19)
- 26. distinct sizable nodal concentration of retail and office space of lower that central city densities (19)
- 27. is a geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in a residential system. (18)
- 28. The size of cities within a country will be in proportion to each other (18)
- 29. An area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urban areas, census tracks correspond roughly to neighborhoods. (19)
- 30. An area in a developed country where healthy food is difficult to obtain, generally associated with a lack of supermarkets and cars (20)
Down
- 1. The city develops in a series of sectors. (19)
- 2. These are areas of extreme poverty located on the outskirts of cities. (19, VIT, most likely to be tested on )
- 3. Planned economic and community development that attempts to curb urban sprawl and worsening environmental conditions (20)
- 4. A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities. (19)
- 5. A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class, owner-occupied area (20)
- 6. a city of at least 50,000 people. is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. (18, IDK)
- 7. is bewildering variety of types of communities with a range of population densities (18)
- 12. a former industrial or commercial site where future use is affected by real or perceived environmental contamination. (20, IDK)
- 14. the process of developing towns and cities (18, VIT, because it relates to every aspect of unit 7)
- 16. the process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities (18, VIT, its greatly related to unit 7)
- 18. outlined by a group of architects, urban planners, and developers from over 20 countries, an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs (20)
- 19. the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation (19)
- 20. unrestricted growth in many American urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning (20)
- 21. Fenced-in neighborhoods with controlled access gates for people and automobiles. (19)
- 22. trend of mid to high-income Americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architechture and also replacing the low-income population (20, VIT,)
- 23. Illegal practice of refusing to make mortgage loans or issue insurance policies in specific areas for reasons other than economic qualifications (20)
- 24. are the world's largest cities and typically have more then ten million people (18, CC, with world cities)