Urban Land Use

A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor

• Threshold

• Urbanization

• Hinterland

• Slum

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood

• Blockbusting

• Ghetto

• Range

• Slum

During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure

• Primate city

• Range

• Slum

• Ghetto

Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries

• Urbanization

• Counterurbanization

• Hinterland

• Primate city

the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services

• Primate city

• Hinterland

• Range

• Threshold

the largest settlement equaling twice the amount of the next largest city, the third largest equaling 1/3 the amount of the largest, etc..

• Blockbusting

• Hinterland

• Rank-size rule

• Urbanization

The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than three times as many people as the second ranking settlement

• Range

• Ghetto

• Rank-size rule

• Primate city

The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

• Range

• Threshold

• Hinterland

• Counterurbanization

The minimum number of people needed to support a service

• Range

• Threshold

• Slum

• Urbanization

The process by which the population of cities grow

• Counterurbanization

• Ghetto

• Urbanization

• Slum