Stats: AP Human Geography Unit 6 Vocab Match

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The commercial heart of a city that is the focal point of transportation and services.	Central Business District	67%
An urban model that reflects the impact of colonization in Africa, with new cities being built next to or on top of old ones. Includes both a traditional CBD and a colonial CBD and residential zones often based on ethnicity.	African Cities Model	58%
A city that exists on the fringes of a larger city and acts as a regional hub for recreation, business, or other community activity for the suburban population of the larger city.	Edge City	58%
A city that has more than 10 million residents.	Megacity	58%
Sites of abandoned factories; a property which has the potential to be a hazardous waste, pollutant, or contaminant.	Brownfield	54%
A community where there is no access to fresh, healthy, affordable food options because there is a lack of food or grocery stores or farmers markets.	Food Desert	54%
The process of wealthier residents moving into a neighborhood, making it unaffordable for existing residents.	Gentrification	54%
If the largest city in an urban system is more than twice as large as the next largest city, the largest city is said to have primacy.	Primate City Rule	54%
A city that exerts influence far beyond its national boundaries.	World City	54%
The price and demand for real estate changes based on the distance from the central business district. Land closer to the CBD is more expensive since there is less of it.	Bid-Rent Theory	50%
A suburban area experiencing significant growth in population and prosperity.	Boomburb	50%
Relatively small, ethnically homogenous communities situated within a larger and more diverse cultural context.	Ethnic Enclave	50%
Walled or fenced neighborhoods with limited access	Gated Community	50%
The portion of the economy that is not taxed, regulated, or managed by the government.	Informal Economy	50%
A chain of interconnected cities.	Megalopolis	50%
An urban model where a city grows from several independent points rather than a single CBD, and as they expand, they merge to form a single urban area.	Multiple Nuclei Model	50%
The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods or services.	Range	50%
A theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists. Every central place is surrounded by a market area it services.	Central Place Theory	46%
A place where there is a relative concentration of people.	City	46%
An urban model that is a mixture of radial sectors and concentric zones and reflects Latin American culture and the influence of globalization. It includes a CBD with a commercial spine and the equality of housing decreases as one moves outward from the CBD.	Latin American Cities Model	46%
Large cities that have more than 20 million residents.	Metacity	46%
Neighborhoods with a mix of residential and commercial buildings (not separated into zones).	Mixed-Use Neighborhood	46%
The process of people moving, usually from cities, to residential areas on the outskirts of cities.	Suburbanization	46%
Deterioration of an urban area due to age or neglect.	Urban Decay	46%
Renovating a site by removing the existing landscape and building from the ground up.	Urban Redevelopment	46%
When people of one ethnic group are frightened into selling their homes at low prices when they hear a family of another race or ethnicity is moving in.	Blockbusting	42%
Segregation of people that happens “by fact” rather than by law.	De Facto Segregation	42%
Urban centers that were shaped by the distances people could walk.	Pedestrian Cities	42%
Unplanned slum developments on the margins of cities, dominated by crude dwellings and shelters made of found materials.	Shantytown	42%
Settlements in which people living there do not have a legal right to the land or property and are living there illegally.	Squatter Settlement	42%
The permanently inhabited portion of the earth’s surface.	Ecumene	38%
The change in the use of a house from a single-family home to rented units in a multifamily dwelling to eventual abandonment.	Filtering	38%
A symbolically relocated capital city, usually for economic or strategic reasons.	Forward Capital	38%
Areas of poverty occupied by a minority group as a result of discrimination.	Ghettos	38%
The population of a town or city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the urban hierarchy. The second-largest city will be half the population of the first largest, the third-largest will be a third of the population of the first largest, etc.	Rank-Size Rule	38%
An established town near a very large city that grows into a city independent of the larger one.	Satellite City	38%
The size of population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable. Services with a low threshold are very common and present in even the smallest central places. Services with higher thresholds required a larger population to survive.	Threshold	38%
Streets lined with tall buildings that can channel and intensify wind and prevent natural sunlight from reaching the ground.	Urban Canyon	38%
The ongoing process of developing towns and cities.	Urbanization	38%
A model that describes urban growth based on transportation technology and suggests that each new form of technology produced a new transportation system that changed how people moved in and between urban areas.	Borchert’s Model of Urban Growth	33%
Burgess' model, where the city is structured as a series of rings around the Central Business District, with housing getting larger and more expensive the farther away it is from the center.	Concentric Zone Model	33%
Laws allowing the government to seize land for public use after paying owners market value.	Eminent Domain	33%
Places that are larger and closer together will have more interaction (flow of people and goods) than places that are smaller and farther away from each other.	Gravity Model	33%
The process of building up underused lands within a city.	Infill	33%
Sparsely populated places away from the influence of large cities.	Rural	33%
An urban model in which the focus of the city is the port zone. There is both an alien and a western commercial zone and a belt of market gardening surrounds the city, with industry and manufacturing beyond that.	Southeast Asian Cities Model	33%
Areas not connected to city services and under the control of drug lords and gangs, often located in physically unsafe locations like mountain slopes.	Disamenity Zone	29%
A set of policies in the US to preserve farmland and other open, undeveloped spaces near a city.	Smart Growth	29%
An interdependent set of cities within a region.	Urban System	29%
The idea that zones or regions of an urban area have specific and distinct purposes.	Zoning	29%
A collection of adjacent cities across which population density is high and continuous.	Metropolitan Area	25%
The process by which bands refuse loans to those who wanted to purchase and improve properties in certain urban areas.	Redlining	25%
Hoyt's model that is arranged in a series of sectors or wedges that radiate out from the CBD. Low-income housing sectors are located beside the industrial transportation zones and middle and high income sectors are located away from them.	Sector Model	25%
The rapid spread of development outward from the city.	Urban Sprawl	25%
When a chain of cities grows until they merge into a single uninterrupted area.	Conurbation	21%
An urban model that describes the spread of US cities outward from the CBD to the suburbs, leaving a declining inner city.	Galactic City Model	21%
Areas of undeveloped land around an urban area.	Greenbelts	21%
The movement of suburbanites further out into rural areas.	Exurbanization	17%
A movement in urban planning that emerged in the 1990s with goals including reducing urban sprawl, increasing affordable housing, and creating livable neighborhoods.	New Urbanism	17%
The outlying towns and small communities that rely on the central city for goods and services.	Hinterland	13%
A place with a permanent human population.	Settlement	13%

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