Urban PatternsAdditional Vocabulary

Latin American City Model

Griffon-Ford Model Combines elements of

Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors.

Latin American City Model

Griffon-Ford Model Combines elements of

Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors.

Latin American City Model

Griffon-Ford Model

Renovated Housing

Def - is an alternative to demolishing deteriorated inner-city houses. This involves gentrification, which is the process by which middle class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing.

Scattered Site Def - site in which dwellings are dispersed throughout

the city rather than clustered in a large project.

Suburb

Def - A subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls.

Zone in Transition

Def - name given to the second ring of the concentric zone model, which surrounds the CBD, in the concentric zone model. This place typically contains industry and poor-quality housing.