vocab 4 ap exam
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- City Beautiful movement
- movement in environmental design that drew directly from the beax arts school.
- concentric zone model
- model that describes urban environments as a series of rings of distinct land uses radiating out from a central core, or central businesss district.
- Central business district
- the downtown or nucleus of a city where retail stores, offices and cultural activities are concentrated;
- Colonial city
- cities established by colonizing empires as administrative centers. Often they were established on already existing native cities, completely overtaking their infrastructures.
- feudal city
- cities that arose during the Middle ages and that actually represent a time of relative stagnation in urban growth.
- action space
- the geographical area that contains the space an individual interacts with on a dailly basis.
- gateway city
- cities that, because of their geographic location, act as ports of entry and distribution centers for large geographic areas.
- European Cities
- cities in Europe that were mostly developed during the medieval period and that retain many of the same characteristics such as extreme density of prominentaly marks the
- exurbanite
- person who has left the inner city and moved to outlying suburbs or rural areas.
- edge city
- cities that are located on the outskirts of larger cities and serve many of the same functions of urban areas, but in a sprawling, decentralized suburban environment.
- central place theory
- a theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900's that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations
- gentrification
- the trend of middle and upper-income americans moving into city centers and rehabilitating much of the architecture but also replacing low-income populations, and changing the social character of certain neighborhoods.
- ghettoization
- A process occurring in many inner cities in which they become dilapitated centers of poverty as affluent whites move out to the suburbs and the immigrants and people of color vie for scarce jobs and resources.