Challenges of Living in a Built Environment Flashcards
Quality Of Life
The happiness, well-being, and satisfaction of a person.
Standard Of Living
Influences on the lives of people that can be measured.
Rural
An area of countryside
Urban
A built up area like a town or city
Owner Occupied
Housing that is owned outright by the people who live in it, or paying off a loan called a mortgage from a bank or building society.
Privately Rented
Housing where the occupier pays rent to a private individual who owns the housing.
‘Squatter’ Housing
Housing that is occupied illegally or houses built illegally on land that is not owned by the builder/occupier.
Council Rented
Houses that are owned by the local authority and loaned to the occupier for rent.
Housing Associations
Groups of people who own property, often apartments or flats. The occupier, who is a member of the housing association, pays rent to the association but also shares in the profit made by the association.
Formal Settlements
Homes where the householders have legal rights to the land.
Informal Settlements
Homes where the householders have no legal rights to the land.
Catchment Area
The area from which a shop attracts its customers.
Range
The furthest distance a customer is willing to travel to shop at a particular store.
Threshold Population
The number of customers below which a shop will not make a big enough profit to stay open.
Accessibility (services)
The ease with which, in this case, a person is able to reach and use a service.
Asylum Seeker
A form of refugee with a well-founded fear of persecution in their country of origin for reasons of political opinion, religion, ethnicity, race/nationality or membership of a particular social group.
Re-urbanisation
This involves a move of people inwards, towards city centres.
Gentrification
This involves the conversion and upgrading of existing buildings as an alternative to demolishing and replacing them with new properties.
Greenfield Site
An area of land that has not been used before for building.
Brownfield Site
An area for redevelopment that has already been built upon.
Green Belt Land
A government policy which is used to prevent the spread of cities into the countryside, in which an area of land surrounding the urban area is protected for development.
Stakeholders
Groups of people who have either a direct or indirect interest in any planning issue.
Sustainable Communities
Communities designed to have minimum impact on the environment.
Honeypot Site
A place of special interest that attracts many tourists and is often congested at peak times.
