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The formal act of acquiring territory, generally by conquest or occupation.
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Kuwait was annexed by Iraq in 1990, but later regained its independence with American aid. |
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An large and densely populated settlement.
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Denver, CO |
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| Concentric Zone Model/Burgess Model |
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An early model explaining the organization of urban areas, created by sociologist Ernest Burgess.
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No city really fully conforms to this model anymore, but Chicago possesses many characteristics. |
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The gradual variation in density within an area.
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Most cities' density gradient is most at the center and declines as one moves outwards...Denver exemplifies this. |
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A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment outside of an established urban area in what once was a suburban area.
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Lone Tree, CO |
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A process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner to abandonment.
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Inner-city homes were/are strongly affected by filtering. |
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The process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly low-income renter-occupied area to a predominantly middle/upper-class owner-occupied area.
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The Lo(wer)Do(wntown) district of Denver, CO. |
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A ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area.
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Central Park, NYC |
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| Latin American Model (Griffon-Ford Model) |
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A combination of the sector and concentric zone models, reflecting globalization and Latin American culture.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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An extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas.
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New York City |
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An MSA is the summation of a central city of at least 50000 population, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting one of several tests indicating a functional connection to the central city. A CMSA is a conglomerate of overlapping MSAs.
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MSA: Chicago
CMSA: Chicagoland (really!) |
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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a collection of nodes of activities.
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Most modern cities conform to this model, such as Detroit, Michigan. |
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A model of North American urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road.
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Los Angeles, CA |
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Housing owned by the government and provisioned at low cost to impoverished families.
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The Red Hook Housing Projects in New York City. |
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A process by which banks identify specific neighborhoods and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.
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Wells Fargo used a reversed version of this tactic against black communities and churches in order to glean subprime mortgages in recent years. |
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A newly improved living building.
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This is an effective tactic for gentrification. |
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The technique of scattering small public housing projects throughout a troubled area in order to reduce the likelihood of organized crime and other problems.
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An area within a city in a less developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.
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Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. |
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A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the central business district (CBD).
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK |
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Legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland.
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Highlands Ranch's Open Space is a clever implementation of Smart Growth. |
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An city's outlying residential district.
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Highlands Ranch |
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An almost uncontrollable low-density growth of a metropolitan area.
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Highlands Ranch is a victim of sprawl. |
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A group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of a variety of social and economic characteristics.
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People who live in the inner city are often pigeonholed into the underclass. |
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Redevelopment and refurbishment of urban areas.
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Lo(wer)Do(wntown), Denver, CO |
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The ring of land uses (characterized by disinvestment) lying between the CBD and the inner ring of working-class residential areas.
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These zones have major potential for small businesses. |
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A law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community.
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This is used to prevent industrial areas diffusing near residential areas, and so on. |
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