Cities and Urban Land Use
Vocabulary List
American cities
o conurbation
o stratified society
o traditional CBD
o Burgess Concentric Ring
Model
o central business
district (CBD)
o white flight
o bright flight
o brain drain
o zoning
o residential
o commercial
o industrial
o basic sector
o non-basic sector
o blockbusting
o uneven development
o special function city
o suburbanization
o red-lining
o lateral
commuting
o strip mall
o public transportation
o industrial park
o heat island effect
o effects of globalization
o infrastructure boomtown
o bedroom community
o population density
gradient
o office park
o ethnic enclave
o bid-rent theory
o homelessness
o public housing/tenements
o female-headed household
o urban sprawl
o ghetto
o planned community
o segregation
o Boswash
o Industrialization
o pollution
o multiplier effect
o crowding
o post-industrialization
o suburbanization
o
o
suburb
decentralization
checkerboard
development
o in-filling
o commuter zone
o gentrification
central place theory
 Christaller, Walter
 central place
city location
 site
 situation
 break-of-bulk point
 railhead
 defensive sites
 head of navigation
 trade-route sites
development of cities
 urban hearth areas
 urbanization
 social hierarchy
 preindustrial city
early cities
 Roman cities
o grid street system
 Greek cities
 cosmomagical city
 Medieval city
gravity model
 Walter Christaller
 Central places
 hinterland
industrialization
 Industrial Revolution
 rural to urban migration
 centralization
models of city patterns in the U.S.
 Burgess’ concentric zone
model
 Hoyt’s sector model
 multiple nuclei model
relocated cities
 planned capital
 forward thrust city
structure of cities worldwide
 African city
o apartheid
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
Asian city
Islamic city
o bazaar
o souk
 Canadian city
 European city
o greenbelt
 East European city
 South Asian city
 edge city/satellite city
 Latin American city
 Southeast Asian city
 entrepot
 Soviet city
 developing city
o indigenous citiy
o colonial city
o emerging cities
o squatter settlements
o shantytown
o favela
o barriadas
o slum
 world city
o 3 top world cities
urban hierarchy
 rank-size rule
 primate city
urban terms
 megacity
 megalopolis
 metropolitan area
 hinterland
 gateway city
 agglomeration