AP Human Geography / Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
6.10 Challenges of Urban Changes
Notes
- Gentrification: wealthier residents move in, raising costs and displacing longtime residents.
- Redlining and blockbusting shaped segregation.
- Squatter settlements, inequality, urban renewal.
Practice
Rising rents pushing out longtime residents after wealthier people move in:
Neighborhood change.
Refusing loans to certain neighborhoods based on race was:
Discriminatory lending.
Informal settlements on the edges of many developing-world cities are:
Unplanned housing.
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