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| a style of urban design that sought to combine the best elements of all the classical architectural styles |
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| central business district (CBD) |
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| the central nucleus of commercial land uses in a city |
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| the original core jurisdictions of metropolitan areas |
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| the territorial and residential clustering of specific groups or subgroups of people |
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| the transmission of poverty and deprivation from one generation to another through a combination of domestic circumstances and local neighborhood conditions |
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| a physical setting that allows residents to identify with, survey, and exert a degree of social control over public space |
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| the juxtaposition in geographic space of the formal and informal sectors of the ecnonomy |
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| nodal concentrations of shopping and office space situated on the outer fringes of metropolitan areas, typically near major highway intersections |
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| increasing limitations on city revenues combined with increasing demands for expenditure |
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| invasion of older, centrally located working class neighborhoods by higher income households seeking the character and convenience of less expensive and well located residences |
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| process of neighborhood change whereby one social or ethnic group succeeds another |
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| hypothetical uniform plane that is flat and has no variations in its physical attributes |
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| population subgroups that are seen or that see themselves as somehow different from the general population |
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| architectural movement based on the idea that buildings and cities should be designed and run like machines |
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| practice whereby lending institutions delimit "bad risk" neighborhoods on a city map and then use the map as the basis for determining loans |
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| spatial separation of specific population subgroups within a wider population |
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| specific combination of demographic groups, social classes, cultural values, and local institutions at a particular time and place |
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| subset of the poor isolated from mainstream values in the formal labor market |
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| situation in which people work less than full time even though they would prefer to work more hours |
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| area of mixed commercial and residential land uses surrounding the CBD |
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