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CUE - LSQ Flashcards

1
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What is the current global population?

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8 billion

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What is the term used for a change over time?

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Temporal

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What is the term used for a change over an area?

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Spatial

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What term is used for the increase in proportion/% of people living in towns and cities?

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Urbanisation

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5
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What term is used when towns and cities merge?

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Conurbation

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6
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What two key factors drive urbanisation?

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  • rural to urban migration
  • natural population increase
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7
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Which two continents are seeing the fastest rates of growth in their towns and cities?

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Asia and Africa

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8
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What term is used for a city for over 20 million inhabitant?

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Meta city

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9
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What factors lead to higher birth rates in many urban areas? (Lots of options)

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  • incr younger population have more children > high fertility levels
  • better services e.g. healthcare so more survive
  • more people wealthy enough to have children
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10
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What term is used when something does not fit a particular pattern?

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Anomalies

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11
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What do the countries Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara have in common?

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They are the 3 countries with the highest rates of urbanisation in Africa

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12
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What continent are Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara all from?

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Africa

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13
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What is a single large city called?

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Primate city

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14
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What term is used for the physical spreading of an urban area?

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Urban sprawl

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15
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What is the method called when ‘potential slums target areas’ are marked into individual lots and basic utilities are installed before any resisters appear?

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Site and service

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16
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What does NGO stand for?

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Non-governmental organisation

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17
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What does SDI stand for?

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Slum Dwellers International

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18
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What term is used to describe employment that is unregulated?

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The informal sector

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19
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What term is used for the expansion of urban areas due to the building if mainly new houses at the edge of the area?

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Suburbanisation

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20
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What term is used for the long-term decline of industry leading to significant social and economic changes?

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Deindustrialisation

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What term is used the process of redistributing people, functions and power away from the centre of an urban area to the periphery?

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Decentralisation

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22
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Which country was the first in the world to experience the process of suburbanisation?

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USA

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23
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What period was the fastest for house building in the UK?

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1950s-1960s interwar

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Name the two most frequent used house types in the suburbanised zone of an urban area?

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Semi-detached and detached

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25
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What year was the Ribbon Development Act introduced?

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1935

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26
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What planning tool is used to prevent urban sprawl?

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Green Belt sites

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27
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How many purposes are there for the green belt tool?

NEED TO ADD WHAT THEY ARE

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5

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28
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Name the processes that cause the movement of people from larger urban settlements into smaller urban settlements and rural areas? (2)

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  • counter urbanisation
  • decentralisation
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29
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How many distinct trends are there for counter urbanisation and decentralisation?

WHAT ARE THEY

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2

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30
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Name the 2 distinct groups most likely to move due to counter urbanisation and decentralisation?

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  • young people with families
  • older people
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31
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Name the process: The investment of capital and ideas into rundown city areas to revitalise and renew its economic, social, and/or environment condition?

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Regeneration

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32
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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

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Resurgence

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33
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The term use for the increased use of machinery

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Mechanisation

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34
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What sector of the employment structure would leisure and transport be included in

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Tertiary

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35
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What does UDC stand for?

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Urban Development Corporation?

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36
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What decade were UDC’s introduced?

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1980s

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37
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What was the first and largest of the UDC’s?

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LDDC, docklands

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38
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What two types of investment were made for UDC’s?

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  • public
  • private
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39
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What type of investment attracted the larger sector of money for UDC’s?

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Private

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40
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What type of scheme was a UDC?

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Property led regeneration

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41
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What term is used for when there is involvement of the local authority and local people from the start?

42
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In what decade was City Challenge Introduced?

43
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What is the name of our City Challange case study?

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Manchester, City Hulme

44
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What term is used for a city with at least 1 million residents?

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Millionaire city

45
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What is the term used for a city with at least 10 million residents?

46
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What is the term used fora city with at least 20 million residents?

47
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Name the 4 types of mega cities

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  1. Immature
  2. Maturing
  3. Established
  4. Consolidating
48
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Name the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange?

A

Globalisation

49
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Name the term that refers to the extent by which a geographical area, an economy or society is becoming information-based?

A

Informatisation

50
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The term used for the information carried and spread by technology e.g. the internet

51
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The term used for the information transferred based on discussion and face to face contact

52
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The term used for a city with a ‘global’ influence

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World city

53
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Term used when referring to the spatial structure and organisation of an area

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Urban morphology

54
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The number of urban zones in an urban model + name them in the correct order

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4

  1. CBD
  2. Inner city
  3. Inner suburbs
  4. Outer suburbs
55
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What does PLVI stand for?

A

Peak land value intersection

56
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What term is used for decreasing land value from the CBD?

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Distance decay

57
Q

What do science parks usually have links with?

A

Universities

58
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What term is used for slightly a different approach to regenerating urban areas that focuses upon culture and heritage?

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Cultural and Heritage Quarters

59
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What term is used for the self-contained settlements which have emerged beyond the original city boundary and have developed as cities in their own right - characterised by mixed office, residential + less ire space?

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Edge cities

60
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What term is used for landscapes designed around security, protection, surveillance and exclusion?

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Fortress landscapes

61
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Name our case study for gentrification

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Notting Hill

62
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Name the term for the difference between levels of living standards, income, etc across the whole ecnomic distribution

A

Economic inequality

63
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Name the term for when groups of people live apart from the larger population due to factors such as wealth, ethnicity, religion and age

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Social segregation

64
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Name the term for economic and social problems faced by reindents in areas of multiple deprivation

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Urban social exclusion

65
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Name the term for the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society

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Cultural diversity

66
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Name the term for a group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have settled elsewhere in the world

67
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What does IMD stand for?

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Index of multiple deprivation

68
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How many domains are covered by the IMD?

69
Q

How many different languages are spoken in London?

70
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Name the two case study areas we looked at in Worcester linked to the IMD

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  • Rainbow Hill
  • St Peter’s
71
Q

What do the letters UHIE represent?

A

Urban Heat Island Effect

72
Q

What term is used for human sources of heat?

A

Anthropogenic

73
Q

What term is used for the relative reflective nature of surfaces?

74
Q

What term is used to describe the high death toll which is created when fog traps pollutants to create toxic smog?

A

Airpocalyse

75
Q

What term is used for when the pressure in the gap between two buildings causes the wind to pick up speed and reach high velocities?

A

Venturi effect

76
Q

What number is associated with the finest particle matter?

77
Q

What does AQI represent?

A

Air quality index

78
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What do the letters ULEZ represent?

A

Ultra Low Emission Zone

79
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Which organisation monitors UK targets linked to pollution?

80
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How many key atmospheric pollutants do they monitor?

WHAT ARE THEY

81
Q

What term is used for surfaces that wont let liquid in?

A

Impermeable/ impervious

82
Q

Name the term for precipitation causing discharge in the river to rise?

A

Rising limb

83
Q

The gap between peak rainfall and peak discharge

84
Q

Units used to measure discharge + what does the unit mean

A

Cumecs M^3 per second

85
Q

Name the type of engineering for flood plain zoning

86
Q

Name the type of engineering for afforestation

87
Q

Name the type of engineering for levees

88
Q

What does the term SUDS mean?

A

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

89
Q

Give one other benefit of green roofs other than managing flooding

A

Increased photosynthesis to combat increasing CO2 levels

90
Q

What do the letters MSW represent?

A

Municipal Solid Waste

91
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Does MSW include industrial, medical, agricultural or radioactive waste?

92
Q

Who set the waste targets?

93
Q

What do the letters WEEE represent?

A

Waste electrical and electronic equipment

94
Q

Name the term for the process of recovering compounds/ elements that would have gone to landfill

A

Urban mining

95
Q

Name the term for the journey of waste from source to disposal

A

Waste stream

96
Q

What are the three R’s?

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Reduce, reuse, recycle

97
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Marine dumping - when was waste sewage sludge banned in The UK?

98
Q

Marine Dumping - when was radioactive waste banned in The UK?

99
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Name the term for the amoun of material (KG/HH/Yr) that is recycled and/or composted instead of going to landfill

A

Total diversion rate

100
Q

What are the WHO?

A

World Health Organisation

101
Q

Name the 4 pillars for achieving urban sustainability

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  1. Social development
  2. Economic development
  3. Environmental development
  4. Urban governance

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