Key Words Flashcards
Mega city
Population of more than 10 million
Hamlet
Cluster of a few houses
No services
Bottom of Hierarchy
Continuum
There is no definitive line between each area
Megalopolis
An extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas
Intra-rural migration
Moving within the same city area
Ghettoisation
To set apart
A part of a city, especially a slum area occupied by a minority group or groups.
Isolation
Studentification
The changes caused by a large number of students moving into a neighbourhood or community, particularly university students attending a nearby school
Gentrification
Upper middle class income groups moving into old housing
Nappy Valley
An area dominated by families with young children/babies
Bid Rent theory
A bid rent curve in a graph of the variations in land rents payable by different users with distance from the market
Rural-Urban fringe
Zone of rural land use immediately adjacent to a large town or city.
Green Belt
A zone of predominantly rural land use encircling an urban area where strict controls on development apply.
In place to limit urban sprawl
Urban Sprawl
Loss of countryside caused by the physical expansion (often unplanned) of towns and cities
