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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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Agglomeration

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City with attached suburbs and villages

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Amenities

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Service everybody can use

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Automation

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Replacement of human labour with computers and software

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Automobility

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Use of motor cars

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5
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Cbd (central business district)

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City centre

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Central city

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Most inmportant city in an agglomeration

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City formation

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Process in which housing is replaced by offices and shops

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Commercial services

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Money making services based on trade banking transport retail and hospitality

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Commuter

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A person who lives in one place and works in another

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Commuter traffic

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Travel between work and home

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Compact city policy

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Policy to build more homes in and near cities

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Dejuvenation

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Decline in the percentage of people younger than 20 years of age in population

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Demographic pressure

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The relationship between productive age group and teh non productive group

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Demographic shrinkage

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Decrease in population

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Demolition and new build

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Demolishing houses and building new ones

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Deprived neighbourhood

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Neighbourhood with low quality of life

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Gentrification

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Changes that happen in poor deprived neighbourhoods when rich people buy and upgrade rundown housing

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Green pressure

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Pressure from the 0 to 20 year age group on 20 to 65 year age grouo

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Grey pressure

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Pressure from 65+ age group on 20 to 65 age group

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Historic city centre

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Oldest part and heart of a city

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Housing density

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Number of homes per km2

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Infrastructure

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Everything that is needed for Transportation of people, goods and information

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Land use

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How space is used for living, working, recreation and traffic

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