| A | B |
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| sector model | city develops in a series of wedges |
| concentric zone model | city grows outward from the cenral area in a series of rings |
| multiple nuclei model | city is complex with a variety of locations supporting activities |
| census tract | division of an urban area in the US |
| CBD | downtown area |
| squatter settlement | make-shift housing with few services |
| social area analysis | overall picture of where various types of people tend to live |
| segmentation | process of partioning markets into groups of potential customers |
| favela | Brazilian squatter settlement |
| urban renewal | Blighted inner city neighborhoods are bought, residents are moved, and facilities are built |
| subprime mortgage | Buyers approved without background checks |
| redlining | Drawing lines on a map to identify areas in which banks will not loan money |
| foreclosure | Lenders take over property from those who cannot repay loans |
| gentrification | Middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing |
| public housing | Reserved for low-income households who pay 30% of income for rent |
| filtering | Subdivision of houses and occupancy by successive waves of lower-income people |
| underclass | Trapped in an unending cycle of economic and social problems |
| Megalopolis | Continuous urban complex of the northeastern US |
| council of government | Cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the various local governments in the region |
| density gradient | Density change in an urban area |
| zoning ordinances | Encourage spatial separation |
| rush hour | four consecutive fifteen minute periods with the heaviest traffic |
| MSA | functional area of a city |
| central city/urbanized area | independent urban settlement surrounded by suburbs |
| peripheral model | inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together with a beltway |
| smart growth | legislation to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |
| CBSA | Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas together |
| edge cities | nodes of consumer and business services surrounding a beltway |
| annexation | process of legally adding land area to a city |
| sprawl | progressive spread of development over the landscape |
| greenbelts | rings of open space |
| city | urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self-governing unit |
