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- 3. The world's largest cities and typically have more than ten million people Most of the population live in these.(AMSCO, Pg.311,VIT)
- 9. A model that places a two part CBD in the middle of the city, with high income housing. The edges of the city are filled with poverty and low-income.(AMSCO, Pg.323,VIT)
- 13. A model that suggested that functional zonation occurred around multiple centers. This structure is in cities such as Chicago.(AMSCO, Pg.321,VIT)
- 16. To develop an area to make it more sustainable, citizen firendly, and safe. This is the main focus of New Urbanism.(AMSCO, Pg.338-339,CC)
- 19. The commercial center of a city. This is the focus of transportation and services in a city.(AMSCO, Pg.320,VIT)
- 20. A model that describes a city as a series of rings surrounding a central business district.Many cities are organized like this.(AMSCO, Pg.321,VIT)
- 22. In, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city. These areas are where a lot of the popualtion live.(AMSCO,338-339, CC)
- 24. A city that exert influence far beyond their national boundaries. This includes cities like NYC, London, Tokyo, and Paris.(AMSCO, Pg.311,VIT)
- 25. Contagious geographic regions that function as the building blocks of a census.(AMSCO, Pg.329,IDK)
- 27. To redevelop an area inside the city that is unused, like brownfields. This means the destruction and complete re purpose of buildings.(AMSCO, Pg.338-339,CC)
- 28. These allow the gvt. to seize land for public use after paying owners for their property. This helps open space for development.(AMSCO, Pg.339,IDK)
- 30. Areas of undeveloped land around an urban area. Creates space for future development.(AMSCO, Pg.348,IDK)
- 31. An area where residents have limited or no access to healthy food because of inadequate transportation. This is msot common in low income neighborhoods.(AMSCO, Pg.342,IDK)
Down
- 1. When an established town near very large city grows independent from it, it becomes this.(AMSCO, Pg.303,IDK)
- 2. An area focused around a node, or central point of interaction. Cities can be called this..(AMSCO, Pg. 305,IDK)
- 4. Old, inner - city housing is purchased at a low price and renovated by investors or by new residents with higher incomes. This is what causes property value to increase in inner city neighborhoods.(AMSCO, Pg.342,VIT)
- 5. The process of developing cities towns and cities. Without this, cities would not be as advanced.(AMSCO, Pg.302,VIT)
- 6. If a city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city, it is considered this. These are the top cities in the Rank-Size Rule.(AMSCO, Pg.309,VIT)
- 7. Pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town. This is the exact areas where most people in the world live.(AMSCO, 338-339,CC)
- 8. A model that shows sectors of land for low, medium, and high income housing. This structure appears in cities like London.(AMSCO, Pg.321,VIT)
- 10. A city of at least 50,000 people, the county in which it is located, and adjacent counties that have a core. This is another way to define a city.(AMSCO, Pg.305,VIT)
- 11. An urban planning movement that started in the 1990s that reduced sprawl, increased affordable housing,and creating lively, walk-able neighborhoods. This movement changed the structure and patterns of cities forever.(AMSCO, Pg.349,VIT)
- 12. The process of banks drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which they will refuse to loan money. This is one of the reasons low income areas stay poor.(Rubenstein, Pg.420,VIT)
- 14. The size of a population necessary for a service to remain profitable and the distance people will go to obtain a good or service. These two things make up the Central Place Theory.(AMSCO, Pg.310 and 311,VIT)
- 15. Independent and self-governing communities that included the settlement and nearby countryside. These were the structures of the earliest urban settlements.(Rubenstein, Pg.379,VIT)
- 17. A large political unit with a: defined boundary, permanent population, maintains sovereignty over its domestic and international affairs, and is recognized by other states. This is most areas in the world.(AMSCO, Pg.137,VIT)
- 18. When people of one ethnic group would be frightened into selling their homes when they heard that families of another ethnic group were moving into their neighborhoods. This led to white-flight.(AMSCO, Pg.342,VIT)
- 21. To form around a central area, much like the concentric rings form around a CBD.(Dictionary.com,IDK)
- 23. Nodes of economic activity that has developed in the periphery of large cities. These areas are usually located at the junction of major transport routes.(AMSCO, Pg.322,VIT)
- 26. A set of policies to preserve farmland and other open, undeveloped spaces near a city. This allows for space for businesses to move in and develop the city.(AMSCO, Pg.348,IDK)
- 29. A bewildering variety of types of communities witha range of population densities.(AMSCO, Pg.301,IDK)
