Challenges of an urbanising world

Question 1

Urban

Answer 1

Characteristic of a town or city

Question 2

Urbanisation

Answer 2

A process where an increasing proportion of people live in towns and cities

Question 3

City

Answer 3

A large town of over 20,000 residents

Question 4

Mega cities

Answer 4

a many centered, multi-city urban area of more than 10 million people. A megacity is sometimes formed from
several cities merging together

Question 5

Metropolitan area

Answer 5

Urban settlement

Question 6

Conurbation

Answer 6

a continuous urban or built-up area, formed by merging towns or cities

Question 7

Million city

Answer 7

A city with a population above one million

Question 8

De industrialisation

Answer 8

When industries close down an area

Question 9

Informal economy

Answer 9

The informal sector, informal economy, or grey economy is the part of an economy that is neither taxed, nor
monitored by any form of government. Workers have no protection and often have to work long hours for less than minimum wage.

Question 10

Formal economy

Answer 10

Jobs which involve paying taxes. The government knows that your job exists

Question 11

Subsistence farmers

Answer 11

These are farmers who live off what they grow. They have very little spare food left over to sell

Question 12

Suburbanisation

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The movement of people form in the suburbs to the outer suburbs

Question 13

Counterurbanisation

Answer 13

When people leave towns or cities to live in the countryside

Question 14

Reurbanisation

Answer 14

When people who used to live in the city and then moved out to live in the countryside or suburb move back to live in the city

Question 15

LEDC

Answer 15

Less economically developed country AKA poor country

Question 16

LIC

Answer 16

Low income country okay a poor country

Question 17

Land use

Answer 17

The way in which land is being used in any place

Question 18

CBD

Answer 18

The central business district – centre of a town or city. The heart of an urban area, often containing high percentage of shops and offices

Question 19

Terraced housing

Answer 19

3 or more houses in one row

Question 20

Inner city

Answer 20

Area located around CVD. Terraced housing. This is where factories in males were first built during the industrial revolution. These Factories are mostly close now and became Brownfield sites. Cheapest housing located in a town or city

Question 21

Brownfield site

Answer 21

Former industrial areas that have been developed before

Question 22

Inner suburbs

Answer 22

The area around there any city. Semidetached housing

Question 23

Outer suburbs

Answer 23

The area around the inner suburbs. Detached housing

Question 24

rural urban fringe

Answer 24

Surrounding urban areas of an urban centre

Question 25

Accessibility

Answer 25

ease of access to a place

Question 26

Gentrification

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High income earners moving to rundown areas to be close to their workplace often resulting in the rehabilitation and regeneration of the area to conform with their middle-class lifestyle like nightlife restaurants and bars

Question 27

Mega city

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A city with a population of over 10, million

Question 28

World city

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They have trade and invest globally e.g. London and New York. They have the most significant important in the world in terms of their financial economic and political influence.

Question 29

Informal housing

Answer 29

Unplanned settlements such as squatter sharks

Question 30

Squatter settlements

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Areas of cities (usually on the outskirts) that are built by people of any material they can find on the land that does not belong to them

Question 31

Bottom up development

Answer 31

Experts work with communities to help identify their needs, offer assistance and let people have more control over their lives, often run by non-governmental organisations.

Question 32

Informal economy

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An unofficial economy, where no records are kept. People in the informal economy have no contracts or employment rights

Question 33

Top down development

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When decision-making about the development of a place is done by governments or large companies with no say of the locals or general public