Urban Morphology

How urban places look Physically & their Structure.

Social Stratification

One of Two things with Agricultural surplus enables cities to be formed.

First Urban Revolution

The innovation of the cities.

Hint:(occurred in 5 hearths)

Acropolis

Center place of a city.

(e.g)The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis (Gr. akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city, pl. acropoleis) in the world

Agora

An open forum of a city where people hold campaigns and trade with each other.  

(e.g)Ancient Greece

Site vs Sitituation

Site-absolute location (Cordinates)

Situation- relative location (Landmarks)

Rank-Size

Rule

the idea that the population of a city will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

Central Place

Theory

Explained by Walter Christaller

how & where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another

zoning laws

Legal restrictions on land use that determine what types of building and economic activities are allowed to take place in central areas.  In the U.S areas are most commonly divided into separate zones of residential, retail, or industrial use

Block Busting

Rapid change in the racial compositions of residential block in american cities that occurs when a real estate agents & others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move.

(E.G) what was once a White neighborhood is now Black

New Urbanization

an urban design that calls for development, urban revitalization that creates walkable neighborhoods.

Urban Sprawl

Unrestricted growth in many american urban ares of housing, commercial development, & roads over large expanses of land

Functional Zonation

The division of a city into different regions or zones(residential or industrial)

CBD

(Central Business District)

The downtown heart of a central city, the CBD is marked by high land value, Business, and Buildings

Suburb

Area away from CBD

Concentric Zone Model

A structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of 5 concentric land use rings

Edge Cities

By American Journalist Joel Gonreau

Describes urbanization away from CBD

(Less then 30 year old Buildings)

Urban

Relam

A big suburb

(E.G) Schamburg 

Disamenity Sector

Poorest Areas of Cities controlled by Gangs or Drug Lords

Shanty Towns

Unplanned slum development on the margins of a city

Dominated by rude dwellings & shelters are made out of wood iron or cardboard

Red Lining

Minority cant buy houses in white neighborhoods

Gentrification

The rehabilitation of deteriorated often abondened, housing of low-income residents 

Commercialization 

transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists.

Primate City

A country's largest city