GEOG 1HA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Community Areas In Chicago, Conurbation, Visible Minority
3 Feb 2020
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Chapter 12 the city and the urban form. Central business district (cbd) the social, cultural, commercial, and political centre of the city; usually characterized by high-rise office and residential towers, key municipal government buildings, and civic amenities. Urban structure the arrangements of land uses in cities; related to urban morphology. Neighbourhood a part of the city that displays some internal homogeneity regarding type of housing, may be characterized by a relatively uniform income level and/or ethnic identity, and usually reflects certain shared social values. Redlining a spatially discriminatory practice, favoured by financial institutions, that identified parts of the city regarded as high risk in terms of loans for property purchase and home improvement; affected areas were typically outlined in red on maps. Filtering the idea that, through time, housing units typically experienced a transition from being occupied by members of one income group to members of a different income group; downward filtering is more usually than upward filtering.
