Urban Geography Terms
URBAN GEOGRAPHY TERMS
Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis.
Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city.
Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity.
City Beautiful movement—Movement in environmental design that drew directly from the beaux arts school. Architects from this movement strove to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride, which many feared was absent from the frenzied new industrial world.
Busing—busing is used in many U.S. cities to promote the racial integration of schools
Blockbusting-- process by which real estate agents convince white owners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into their neighborhood and cause property values to decline.
Central business district—The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail 1 stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge.
Central City—the core city where the urban area originally began more than 100 years ago. Example: The city of Miami without suburbs like Pinecrest, Hialeah and Coral Gables.
Central place theory—A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations.
City-state—a state or country that is comprised of a city and its surrounding countryside. It was a common early form of urban settlement.
Clustered rural settlement—the most common form of rural settlement. In this
Action space—The geographical area that contains the space an indivdual interacts with on a daily basis.
Annexation—the process of legally adding land area to a city.
Beaux arts—This movement within city planning and urban design that stressed the marriage of older, classical forms with newer, industrial ones. Common characteristics of this period include wide thoroughfares, spacious parks, and civic monuments that stressed progress, freedom, and national unity.
City Beautiful movement—Movement in environmental design that drew directly from the beaux arts school. Architects from this movement strove to impart order on hectic, industrial centers by creating urban spaces that conveyed a sense of morality and civic pride, which many feared was absent from the frenzied new industrial world.
Busing—busing is used in many U.S. cities to promote the racial integration of schools
Blockbusting-- process by which real estate agents convince white owners living near a black area to sell their houses at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move into their neighborhood and cause property values to decline.
Central business district—The downtown or nucleus of a city where retail 1 stores, offices, and cultural activities are concentrated; building densities are usually quite high; and transportation systems converge.
Central City—the core city where the urban area originally began more than 100 years ago. Example: The city of Miami without suburbs like Pinecrest, Hialeah and Coral Gables.
Central place theory—A theory formulated by Walter Christaller in the early 1900s that explains the size and distribution of cities in terms of a competitive supply of goods and services to dispersed populations.
City-state—a state or country that is comprised of a city and its surrounding countryside. It was a common early form of urban settlement.
Clustered rural settlement—the most common form of rural settlement. In this