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AP Human Unit 6

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African City Model
Model that suggests that African cities have more than one CBD, which is a remanence of colonialism
Bid-rent theory
Geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases
Blockbusting
A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood
Boomburbs
Rapidly growing suburb cities
Brownfields
Abandoned polluted industrial sites in central cities, many of which are today being cleaned and redeveloped
Burgess Concentric-Zone model
A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings
Christaller's Central Place theory
A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther
De Facto segregation
Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice
Ecological footprint
The amount of biologically productive land and water needed to support a person or population
Edge cities
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area
Exurbs
Communities that arise farther out than the suburbs and are typically populated by residents of high socioeconomic status
Gentrification
A process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupied area
Gravity Model
A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service
Greenbelts
A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area
Griffin-Ford Latin America city model
Combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors
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