central business district

(noun)

The central area of a city in which a concentration of certain retail and business activities takes place, especially in older cities with rail transportation.

Related Terms

  • Human Ecology
  • urban open space

Examples of central business district in the following topics:

  • The Structure of Cities

    • Washington, D.C. is an example of a city that was planned in a classic European style, with streets radiating off of a central point.
    • This dispersion of cities illustrates central place theory.
    • The innermost ring represents the central business district (CBD), called Zone A. .
    • A city's central business district (CBD), or downtown, is the commercial and often geographic heart of a city.
    • They are intended to attract business by concentrating dedicated infrastructure to reduce the per-business expenses.
  • Educational Reform in the U.S.

    • For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
    • Despite this high level of funding, the school district provides outcomes that are lower than the national average.
    • For example, in 2007, the Washington, D.C. public school district had the third highest level of funding per student among the 100 biggest school districts.
    • In the 1990s, most states and districts adopted Outcome-Based Education (OBE) in some form or another.
    • A central issue for educational reform advocates today is school choice.
  • Suburbanization

    • Louis city limits has a much greater proportion of racial minorities than the suburbs surrounding the city does, and primary business districts have developed in the suburbs rather than in the original city center.
    • Many residents of suburbs still work within the central urban area, choosing instead to live in the suburbs and commute to work.
  • Education and the Global Perspective

    • Also, the Soros Foundation provides many opportunities for students from central Asia and Eastern Europe.
    • In Europe, for example, the Socrates-Erasmus Program fosters exchanges between European universities, while the Soros Foundation provides educational opportunities to students from central Asia and eastern Europe.
    • The emergence of secondary education in the United States did not occur until 1910, when a rise in big business and technological advances in factories (for instance, the emergence of electrification) required skilled workers.
    • Students from the Hala Bint Khuwaylid secondary girl's school in the Amil district of Baghdad, pictured with new school bags containing pens, pencils, notebooks, calculators, and other school supplies: USAID is funding the purchase and distribution of 1.5 million school bags through a partnership with Creative Associates International.
  • Points of View: Micro-Meso-Macro

    • Both the country's private sector business class and low-income households have been greatly impacted, experiencing job loss and price hikes.
    • School districts in wealthy suburban areas tend to pay higher teachers' salaries, have newer buildings, and provide sophisticated equipment.
    • Students in central city schools and poverty stricken rural areas often attend rundown schools that lack necessary equipment and teaching materials.
  • Introduction to betweenness centrality

    • To stretch the example just a bit more, suppose that I also have an appointment in the school of business, as well as one in the department of sociology.
    • For networks with binary relations, Freeman created some measures of the centrality of individual actors based on their betweenness, as well overall graph centralization.
  • Racial Stratification

    • Communities made up predominantly of racial minorities are significantly more likely to be polluted and to house factories and business that pollute extensively.
    • While it might seem that this is inadvertent and not intentionally racist, the evidence suggest otherwise: these communities are systematically targeted as locations for situating polluting businesses.
    • This was the experience of Mildred and Richard Loving, who married in 1958 in Washington D.C., a district in the US that no longer had a law against interracial marriage.
  • Gender

    • Further, gender equality plays a central role in education as well as in reproductive and maternal health.
    • Kathaleen Sikes, a Navy nurse, listens to a young woman during a routine check-up at the Couva District Health Facility in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Bureaucratization of Schools

    • The adaption of technology is spreading among school districts for any variety of reasons including the ability to exploit Internet access or as a government-funded initiative.
    • The data gathered from the Virtual Educational Organization case study describes how one school district was in the formative stage of developing a virtual organizational structure based upon a convergence of high quality software, Internet connectivity, and capacity building to support digital teaching and learning.
    • This school district was actively adopting technology and software as integrated, and integral, components of the traditional bureaucratic hierarchical brick and mortar system of schooling.
    • In the twenty-first century teaching, learning, and the educational system itself have been buffeted by forces that challenged the traditional bureaucratic arrangement of schools with tall administrative hierarchies, centralized decision-making, and tightly controlled structures.
    • This case study outlines how one K-12 school district is managing change related to teaching, leading, and learning as it shifts to a more student-centered approach to education within a bureaucratic and virtually enhanced structure of schooling.
  • Industrial Work

    • After the Industrial Revolution, production increasingly took place in factories, many of which were situated together in industrial districts.
    • Some blue-collar workers have uniforms embroidered with either the business' name or the individual's name.
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