| TERM/PHRASE | CLASSIFICATION | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| Ethnic Neighborhood | is an area | which which has a special cultural flavor within a community |
| Frictional Blight | is a condition | which results from the coexistence of two or more disagreeable types of land use |
| Functional Blight | is a condition | which results from an area in a community being used for purposes other than those originally intended |
| Functional Index | is a value | which indicates the importance of an activity within a community when compared with the national average |
| Grid Street Pattern | is a street design | which is based on a north-south, east-west, crisscross regular pattern |
| High Order Products | is a marketing term | which refers to products and services purchased infrequently |
| Leapfrogging Sprawl | is land development | which occurs well away from an existing community |
| Linear Sprawl | is land development | which occurs along important transportation routes away from a community |
| Low Order Products | is a marketing term | which refers to products and services that are purchased frequently |
| Normal Sprawl | is land development | which occurs at the outer edges of a community |
| Peak Value Intersection | is a location | which results from problems associated with the way things look in a community |
| Service Center | is a type of community | which has as its main function the provision of goods and services to a surrounding area |
| Suburbs | is a type of area | which contains low density housing and is usually found on the outer edges of a community |
| Urban Fringe | is a type of area | which is found at the outer edge of a community and where there is a mixture of urban and rural land use |
| Urban Hierarchies | is a settlement term | which refers to the different sizes of communities, starting with, for example, a hamlet and progressing in size to town, city, and so on |
| Urbanization | is a process | in which people move from rural to urban areas causing a spread of urban centers |
| Zone of Influence | is an area | which surrounds a community and is influenced by services from this community |