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Unit 6 Vocab

  1. Urbanization  
  2. Site 
  3. Situation  
  4. Megacity 
  5. Meta-City  
  6. Suburbanization  
  7. Suburb  
  8. Suburban Sprawl  
  9. Edge City  
  10. Exurb  
  11. Boomburb  
  12. World City 
  13. Network 
  14. Globalization  
  15. Urban Heirarchy 
  16. Rank-Size Rule 
  17. Primate City 
  18. Gravity Model 
  19. Christaller’s Central Place Theory 
  20. Low Order Goods 
  21. High Order Goods 
  22. Urban Models  
  23. Burgess Concentric Zone Model  
  24. Hoyt Sector Model  
  25. Harris and Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model 
  26. Galactic City Model (Peripheral Model) 
  27. Bid-Rent Theory  
  28. Latin American City Model  
  29. Southeast Asain City Model  
  30. Sub-Saharan African City Model 
  31. Housing Discrimination  
  32. Red-Lining 
  33. Blockbusting 
  34. Affordable Housing 
  35. Access to Services  
  36. High Crime Rates 
  37. Environmental Injustice  
  38. Disamenity Zone 
  39. Zones of Abandonment 
  40. Squatter Settlements (Slum / favela / barrio/ shantytown) 
  41. Land Tenure 
  42. Inclusionary Zoning 
  43. Local Food Movements 
  44. Urban Renewal 
  45. Gentrification  
  46. Functional Fragmentation of Government 
  47. Urban Sustainability  
  48. Low Density Housing 
  49. Medium Density Housing 
  50. High Density Housing 
  51. Residential Buildings & Patterns of Land Use 
  52. Sustainable Development  
  53. Zoning 
  54. Mixed Land Use 
  55. Walkability 
  56. Transportation-Oriented Development 
  57. Smart Growth Policies  
  58. New Urbanism 
  59. Green Belt 
  60. Slow Growth Cities