Challenges of Living in a Built Environment

Question 1

Quality Of Life

Answer 1

The happiness, well-being, and satisfaction of a person.

Question 2

Standard Of Living

Answer 2

Influences on the lives of people that can be measured.

Question 3

Rural

Answer 3

An area of countryside

Question 4

Urban

Answer 4

A built up area like a town or city

Question 5

Owner Occupied

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Privately Rented

Answer 6

Housing where the occupier pays rent to a private individual who owns the housing.

Question 7

‘Squatter’ Housing

Answer 7

Housing that is occupied illegally or houses built illegally on land that is not owned by the builder/occupier.

Question 8

Council Rented

Answer 8

Houses that are owned by the local authority and loaned to the occupier for rent.

Question 9

Housing Associations

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

Formal Settlements

Answer 10

Homes where the householders have legal rights to the land.

Question 11

Informal Settlements

Answer 11

Homes where the householders have no legal rights to the land.

Question 12

Catchment Area

Answer 12

The area from which a shop attracts its customers.

Question 13

Range

Answer 13

The furthest distance a customer is willing to travel to shop at a particular store.

Question 14

Threshold Population

Answer 14

The number of customers below which a shop will not make a big enough profit to stay open.

Question 15

Accessibility (services)

Answer 15

The ease with which, in this case, a person is able to reach and use a service.

Question 16

Asylum Seeker

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Re-urbanisation

Answer 17

This involves a move of people inwards, towards city centres.

Question 18

Gentrification

Answer 18

This involves the conversion and upgrading of existing buildings as an alternative to demolishing and replacing them with new properties.

Question 19

Greenfield Site

Answer 19

An area of land that has not been used before for building.

Question 20

Brownfield Site

Answer 20

An area for redevelopment that has already been built upon.

Question 21

Green Belt Land

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Stakeholders

Answer 22

Groups of people who have either a direct or indirect interest in any planning issue.

Question 23

Sustainable Communities

Answer 23

Communities designed to have minimum impact on the environment.

Question 24

Honeypot Site

Answer 24

A place of special interest that attracts many tourists and is often congested at peak times.