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The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis. [1]

39 relations: Apartment, Banlieue, Belo Horizonte, Bid rent theory, Black flight, Brasília, Brazil, Brookings Institution, Campo Grande, Car, Central business district, City centre, Concentric zone model, Desegregation busing, Downtown, French language, Gentrification, Ghetto, Goiânia, Governing (magazine), Industrial deconcentration, Inner City Press, Italian language, List of largest cities, London, London Borough of Hackney, Metropolis, Palmas, Tocantins, Portuguese language, Skid row, Spanish language, Suburb, Suburban colonization, Swedish language, United States, Urban decay, Urban sprawl, Urban structure, White flight.

Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Banlieue

In France, a banlieue is a suburb of a large city.

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Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte ("Beautiful Horizon") is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, the thirteenth-largest in South America and the eighteenth-largest in the Americas.

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Bid rent theory

The bid rent theory is a geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand for real estate change as the distance from the central business district (CBD) increases.

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Black flight

Black flight is a term applied to the out-migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas in the United States to suburbs and outlying edge cities of newer home construction.

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Brasília

Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.

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Campo Grande

Campo Grande (Great Field) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Center-West region of the country.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Central business district

A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.

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City centre

A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart of a city, especially those in the Western world.

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Concentric zone model

The concentric zone model, also known as the Burgess model or the CCD model, is one of the earliest theoretical models to explain urban social structures.

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Desegregation busing

Desegregation busing in the United States (also known as forced busing or simply busing) is the practice of assigning and transporting students to schools so as to redress prior racial segregation of schools, or to overcome the effects of residential segregation on local school demographics.

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Downtown

Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English-speakers to refer to a city's core or central business district (CBD), often in a geographical or commercial sense.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Goiânia

Goiânia is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás.

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Governing (magazine)

Governing is a national monthly magazine, edited and published since 1987 in Washington, D.C., whose subject area is state and local government in the United States.

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Industrial deconcentration

Industrial deconcentration is the movement of industrial zones (factories) away from the center of the city, and further away from each other.

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Inner City Press

Inner City Press is a public interest organization founded by Matthew Lee, who serves as Executive Director.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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List of largest cities

Determining the world's largest cities depends on which definitions of city are used.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in Inner London, United Kingdom.

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Metropolis

A metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.

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Palmas, Tocantins

Palmas (Palm trees) is the capital and largest city in the state of Tocantins, Brazil, newly organized under the 1988 constitution.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Skid row

A skid row or skid road is an impoverished area, typically urban, in English-speaking North America whose inhabitants are people "on the skids;" this specifically refers to the poor, the homeless, or others either considered disreputable or forgotten by society.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Suburban colonization

Suburban colonization happens when people move to suburbs, taking their political power with them from the place they leave.

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Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban decay

Urban decay (also known as urban rot and urban blight) is the process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.

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Urban sprawl

Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization.

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Urban structure

Urban structure is the arrangement of land use in urban areas, in other words, how the land use of a city is set out.

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White flight

White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_city

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