Unit VII
Terms
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- high technology corridors
- areas alone or near major transportation arteries that are devoted to research, development, and sale of high technology products
- city scape
- the landscape of an urban area; the combined impression of the citys built and non built environments,
- urban hierarchy
- a ranking of settlements according to their size and economic functions
- blockbusting
- rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in american cities that occues when real estate agents and others stir up fears of nieghborhood decline after encouraging colored people to move to the preveiously whte neighborhoods.
- deindustrialization
- the cumulatuve and sustained decline in the contribution of manufacturing to a national economy.
- invasion and succession
- settlement of new arrivals to a city in older housing near the city center (invasion) and outward push of eariler groups (succession)
- multiplier effect
- expansion of economic activity caused by the growth or introduction of another economic activity
- site/situation
- the internal physical attributes of a place/the external locational attributes of a place.
- CBD
- the downtown heart of the central city, the CBD is marked by high land values, a concentration of business and commerce, and the clustering of the tallest buildings
- gentrification
- the rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low income inner city residents
- zoning
- legal restrictions on land use that determines what types of building and economic activity are allowed to take place in certain areas.
- economic base
- the manufacturing and service activities performed by the basic sector of a city's labor force
- globalization
- the expansion of economic, political, and cultural activites to the point that they become global in scale and impact
- disamenity sector
- the very poorest parts of cities that in extreme cases are not even connected to the regulkar city services and are controlled by gangs or drug lords.
- census tract
- an areal unit defined and used by the census bureau for presentaion of date
- entrepot
- a place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, or transshipped
- agglomeration
- the process involving clustering or concentrating of people or activites
- favela
- shantytown on the outskirts or even well within an urban area in brazil
- urban morphology
- the study of the physical form and structure of urban places
- threshold/range
- the minimum market size needed to support a central place function./the maximum distance popele are willing to travel to obtain a certain place function