GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Urban Sprawl, Informal Sector, Urban Design
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Rapid change in the racial composition of residential blocks in american cities that occurs when real estate agents and others stir up fears of neighborhood decline after encouraging people of color to move to previously white neighborhoods. The transformation of an area of a city into an area attractive to residents and tourists alike in terms of economic activity. The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner city residents. Homes bought in many american suburbs with the intent of tearing them down and replacing them with much larger homes, often mcmansions. Homes referred to as such because of their super size and similarity in appearance to other such homes; homes often built in place of teardowns in. Unrestricted growth in many american urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning.
