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| Central Business District (CBD) |
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| An area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. Usually one of the oldest districts, has a lot of infrastructure, buildings,retail etc;. |
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| The distance a customer will drive to receive a service or good, or the distance from which a market will receive customers. |
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| The amount of customers a business needs to "stay afloat" Without enough customers, there isn't enough income, without enough income, there is no support for the business. |
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| Limited sites or area can lead to competition and high prices for land; in NYC it costs about 100 million dollars to get a hectare of land. |
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| Are speedily gaining in population due to cheaper land costs, less traffic, bigger homes, etc; Since WWII the sales have risen 5% each year. Have shopping malls instead of separate markets. |
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| The process of wealthy people moving into inner-city neighborhoods. |
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| An area in which the developers of the area plot out each house and build the community from scratch. |
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| Models of Urban Structures |
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| Developed to explain where different types of people tend to live (in an urban area). There are three different models; Concentric Zone Model (or Burgess Model), Sector Model (or Hoyt Model), and Multiple Nuclei Model (or the Harris and Ullman Model). |
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| People who settle on land they don't legally own. They settle in unused areas with the hopes that they can achieve legal rights to the land. |
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| A professional endeavor that seeks to fix, preserve, and protect buildings, places, objects, landscapes, etc. of historical significance. Some states have historic districts that are from a certain era in the region's history. |
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| homes designed to look like European farms with front lawns and were originally built for the growing urban middle class of Chicago in Riverside, Illinois. |
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| buildings that serve as a commercial profit and a house. |
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| occurs within the commuter zone of the city but both work and home are outside the central city. |
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| Inner city or suburban residents move to rural areas to escape congestion, crime, pollution, etc. of the urban landscape. |
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A town is a clustered settlement w/ a CBD but is smaller than and less functionally complex than a city.
A city is a conglomeration of people and buildings who/ that serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics |
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