CUE - LSQ Flashcards
What is the current global population?
8 billion
What is the term used for a change over time?
Temporal
What is the term used for a change over an area?
Spatial
What term is used for the increase in proportion/% of people living in towns and cities?
Urbanisation
What term is used when towns and cities merge?
Conurbation
What two key factors drive urbanisation?
- rural to urban migration
- natural population increase
Which two continents are seeing the fastest rates of growth in their towns and cities?
Asia and Africa
What term is used for a city for over 20 million inhabitant?
Meta city
What factors lead to higher birth rates in many urban areas? (Lots of options)
- incr younger population have more children > high fertility levels
- better services e.g. healthcare so more survive
- more people wealthy enough to have children
What term is used when something does not fit a particular pattern?
Anomalies
What do the countries Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara have in common?
They are the 3 countries with the highest rates of urbanisation in Africa
What continent are Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara all from?
Africa
What is a single large city called?
Primate city
What term is used for the physical spreading of an urban area?
Urban sprawl
What is the method called when ‘potential slums target areas’ are marked into individual lots and basic utilities are installed before any resisters appear?
Site and service
What does NGO stand for?
Non-governmental organisation
What does SDI stand for?
Slum Dwellers International
What term is used to describe employment that is unregulated?
The informal sector
What term is used for the expansion of urban areas due to the building if mainly new houses at the edge of the area?
Suburbanisation
What term is used for the long-term decline of industry leading to significant social and economic changes?
Deindustrialisation
What term is used the process of redistributing people, functions and power away from the centre of an urban area to the periphery?
Decentralisation
Which country was the first in the world to experience the process of suburbanisation?
USA
What period was the fastest for house building in the UK?
1950s-1960s interwar
Name the two most frequent used house types in the suburbanised zone of an urban area?
Semi-detached and detached
What year was the Ribbon Development Act introduced?
1935
What planning tool is used to prevent urban sprawl?
Green Belt sites
How many purposes are there for the green belt tool?
NEED TO ADD WHAT THEY ARE
5
Name the processes that cause the movement of people from larger urban settlements into smaller urban settlements and rural areas? (2)
- counter urbanisation
- decentralisation
How many distinct trends are there for counter urbanisation and decentralisation?
WHAT ARE THEY
2
Name the 2 distinct groups most likely to move due to counter urbanisation and decentralisation?
- young people with families
- older people
Name the process: The investment of capital and ideas into rundown city areas to revitalise and renew its economic, social, and/or environment condition?
Regeneration
Name the process: The movement of people back into urban areas - generally the inner city but can include the CBD. It refers to both the economic and structural aspect of the city
Resurgence
The term use for the increased use of machinery
Mechanisation
What sector of the employment structure would leisure and transport be included in
Tertiary
What does UDC stand for?
Urban Development Corporation?
What decade were UDC’s introduced?
1980s
What was the first and largest of the UDC’s?
LDDC, docklands
What two types of investment were made for UDC’s?
- public
- private
What type of investment attracted the larger sector of money for UDC’s?
Private
What type of scheme was a UDC?
Property led regeneration