unit 6 vocabulary human geography

a suburb that has grown rapidly into a large and sprawling city with more than 100,000 residents

• brownfield

• blockbusting

• megacity

• boomburb

a theory used to describe the spatial relationship between cities and their surrounding cities

• Central place theory

• Threshold

• Sector model

• Urban renewal

a type of community located on the outskirts of a larger city with commercial centers with office space, retail complexes, and other amenities typical of an urban center

• Primate city

• World city

• Edge city

• Slow-growth city

a typically fast-growing community outside of or on the edge of a metropolitan area where the residents and community are closely connected to the central city and suburbs

• exurb

• Land tenure

• Redlining

• Traditional zoning

a model that predicts the interaction between two or more places; geographers derived the model from Newton’s law of universal gravitation

• African city model

• Gravity model

• Concentric-zone model

• Galactic city model

redevelopment that identifies and develops vacant parcels of land within previously built areas

• Redlining

• New urbanism

• Sector model

• infill

a city with a population of more than 10 million

• metacity

• Metropolitan area

• megacity

• Squatter settlement

a city with a population of more than 20 million

• metacity

• Metropolitan area

• megacity

• Squatter settlement

a city and the surrounding areas that are influenced economically and culturally by the city

• Metropolitan area

• Disamenity zone

• zoning

• Regional planning

the largest city in a country, which far exceeds the next city in population

• Slow-growth city

• Primate city

• Urban renewal

• Concentric-zone model