AP®︎ Human Geography: Topic 6.6 Flashcards

The number of dwelling units or residents per unit of residential land area

The number of dwelling units per unit of residential land

The amount of building floor space occupying a parcel, which is not necessarily the same as residential density

The number of people living in each housing unit

A condition in which too many people occupy too little interior living space; it is not the same as high residential density

Relatively few households spread across substantial land, typically in detached single-family houses on large individual lots

More households per unit of land through attached houses, smaller lots, or low-rise multifamily buildings such as rowhouses and apartments

Many households concentrated on relatively little land, typically in mid-rise or high-rise multifamily buildings

The tendency for residential density to be greatest near highly accessible urban locations and to decline with distance

The sequence in which an area is built, ages, experiences changing investment or demand, and is altered or redeveloped

The replacement or substantial alteration of an existing land use or structure

New construction on vacant or underused land within an already substantially built-up urban area

The broader process of increasing the amount of housing or population accommodated in an existing area