keywords Flashcards
deindustrialisation
The decline of a country’s traditional manufacturing industry due to exhaustion of raw materials, loss of markets and overseas competition
formal economy
A plot of land, often in a rural area or on the edge of an urban area, that has never been built on before
inequalities
differences between poverty and health aswell as wellbeing and access to jobs, housing, education
informal economy
employment outside the official knowledge of the government
integrated transport system
Different forms of transport are linked together to make it easy to transport from one place to another
mega city
a city with 10 million people
natural increase
birth rate is higher than death rate
migration
when people move from one area to another
post industrial economy
the shift of some HIC economies from producing goods to producing services
rural urban fridge
a zone between the built up area and the country side
service industries
the economic activities that provide various services- commercial, professional, social, entertainment and personal
social deprivation
the extent an individual or an area lacks services , decent housing, adequate income and employment
squatter settlement
an area of illegal poor quality housing lacking in services like water supply, sewage and electricity
traffic congestion
when there is too great a volume of traffic for roads to cope with and traffic slows to a crawl
urbanisation
an increasing percentage of a country’s population living in urban rather than rural
