Fill in with Correct Urban Sprawl of U.S Flashcards

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What things is U.S. suburbanization associated with?
High use of automobiles for commuting, white flight, taking the tax base out of innter cities and the loss of prime agricultural land
As accessibility and utility decline in a concentric zone model of the city, land use generally changes from high volume ________ to ________.
Retailing, residential
The urban land use model is sometimes referred to as the trade-off model because people make a trade-off between accessibility and ________ space.
Living
A critical assumption behind the concentric zone model of a city is that it has an isotropic surface, meaning that the model city is flat, uniform and is _____, _______ and ________ free.
Flat, uniform, barrier
Though congregation can be voluntary, segregation is when congregation is combined with what?
Discrimination central business district
In the concentric zone model cities, the zone of transition typically begins at the dynamic outer edge of a city's ________ ________ district.
Central business
The classic case study of urban ecology and the example of concentric zones of dynamic neighborhoods of different ethnicity and social status was ________.
Chicago
The rippling processs of change throughout a city, whereby displaced social or ethnic groups displace othere in residential areas, is know as ________and ________.
Invasion and succession
Until the last quarter of the 20th century, the direction of invasion and succession was ________ from the center.
Outward
The invasion of older, centrally-located working-class neighborhoods by higher-income professionals in search of character and convenience is called ________.
Gentrification
When increased demand for urban services combines with a shrinking tax base (where businesses and affluent people move out to the suburbs and beyond), central cities around the country struggle with the ________ ________.
Fiscal squeeze
By making loans unattainable to people in certain neighborhoods, the practice of ________ compounds the difficulty in achieveing inner city improvements.
Redlining
Redlining is, most specifically, a form of ________ discrimination.
Housing
European cities are different from North American cities largely because European cities have long histories of _____________________________.
Numerous periods of urban development
The Beaux Arts style of architecture was used in the urban redevelopment and planning of ________ in the ________th century.
Paris, 19th