6.10-6.11

• redlining - the process by which banks refuse loans to those who want to purchase and improve homes in certain areas
• blockbusting - when people of an ethnic group sold their homes upon learning that members of another ethnic group were moving into the neighborhood
• ghettos - areas of poverty occupied by a minority group as a result of discrimination
• inclusionary zoning - offer incentives for developers to set aside a percentage of housing for low-income renters or buyers
• scattered site -

  • used by community leaders as an approach to alleviate the problems of public housing.
  • the city or government will provide rental assistance for individuals to disperse public housing throughout the area
• urban renewal - this policy allowed governments to demolish slums, which usually displaced the residents to low-income government housing complexes, and built new development projects
• eminent domain - allows the government to claim private property for public use without compensation
• Gentrification


  The process of converting an urban inner-city neighborhood from a mostly low-income, renter-occupied area to a predominately wealthier, owner-occupied area
• Gentrification


  • Occurs mostly in the cities of core countries but is increasingly happening in cities in the periphery
  • The households in gentrified areas are often a combination of young urban professionals with high-paying jobs, LGBTQ+ looking for more inclusive neighborhoods, and older couples whose children have moved out
• Fair Housing Act - prohibits landlords from discriminating against potential tenants based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or familial status
• informal settlements - densely populated areas built without coordinated planning and without sufficient public services for electricit, water and sewage
• land tenure - the legal protection of contracts to show ownership of the land or structures
• zones of abandonment- areas of a city that have been deserted by their owners for either economic or environmental reasons
• environmental injustice/racism - disproportionate exposure of minorities and the poor to pollution and its impacts, plus the unequal distribution of resources and protection of their rights under the law
• urban canyons - streets lined with buildings
• urban heat island - an area of a city warmer than its surrounding areas
• rush hour - time of the day when shit gets busy and stuff in a city
• brownfield - visual reminders on the landscape of how the centers of cities have changed over time; typically with dilapidated buildings and polluted/ contaminated soils
• urban redevelopment - involved renovating a site within a city by removing the existing landscape and rebuilding from the ground up