Page 2VOCAB: Extra Packet Vocab:edge city: cities made to pull CBD functions outside of the major citybarrio/favelas: unchanging slums in disamentity sectorperiferico: beyond the highway ringmetropolitan area: cities & surroundings Models Reading and Practice from Khan Academy Link *center cities typically have dense conglomeration of residential, retail, civic, and religious structures*often little to no planning since they grow over time*narrow and winding streets*some well off neighborhoods*outside of the cores is a preindustrial periphery, once poor and heavily affected by transportation* next areas are industrial and post industrial suburbs*many ethnic neighborhoods from former colonies or occasionally post WWII cultivated relationships
Centrality does not matter. Ethnic and varied neighborhoods are all connected to one another and important people via transportation. Old downtown is festival or recreational site
Megacities:*large populations, vast areas of territory, and strained infrastructure*found in developing areas *Mumbai, India; Mexico City; Sao Paulo, Brazil
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