Contemporary Urban Processes Key Terms Flashcards

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Slums of hope

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Slum areas which are comparatively more well off than others, there’s good community cohesion and schemes such as ASH

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Slums of despair

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The worst quality of slum, there’s poor community cohesion, it is in decline

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Rural urban fringe

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The area of land that marks the boundary between urban and rural areas

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Inner city

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The area of the city outside the CBD which is generally in a grid like structure

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Yuppies

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Young upwardly mobile professionals

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Ribbon development

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Th building of houses on a main road, especially one leading into to out of a town/village

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Social welfare

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A system which provides assistance to families

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Rural turnaround

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When more people began to migrate to rural areas and their net migration rates became positive

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Suburbanised villages

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A village which has few of little facilities and one in which the inhabitants travel to larger urban areas to shop etc

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Property led regeneration scheme

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E.g. London dock lands (urban development corporations)

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City Challenge Partnership

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E.g. Hulme

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Sustainable community

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E.g. Greenwich millennium village

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Natural increase

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An increase in population brought about by births

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Push factors

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Factors which would make people emigrate from an area

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Pull factors

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Factors which would make people migrate to an area

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Urbanisation

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The process of making an area more urban

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Re urbanisation

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The movement of people back into an urban area

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Counter urbanisation

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Essentially urban to rural migration

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Suburbanisation

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Where people move from the inner city to the suburbs