The Urban World - key words Flashcards
Brownfield site
Land that has been used, abandoned and now awaits reuse; often found in urban areas.
Dereliction
Abandoned buildings and wasteland.
Economic Opportunities
Chances for people to improve their standard of living through employment.
Greenfield site
A plot of land, often in a rural area or on the edge of an urban area that has not been built on before.
Inequalities
Differences between poverty and wealth, as well as peoples’ well being and access to things like jobs, housing and education. Inequalities may occur in housing provision, to services, access to open land, safety and security.
Intergrated Transport Systems
Different forms of transport are linked together to make it easy to transfer from one place to another.
Mega - cities
an urban area with a total population of more than 10 million people.
Migration
When people move from one area to another; in many LICs people move from rural to urban areas (rural - urban migration).
Natural Increase
Birth rate minus the death rate of a population.
Pollution
Chemicals, noise, dirt or other substances that have harmful or poisonous effects on an environment.
Rural - urban fringe
A zone of transition between a built - up area and the countryside, where teir is often competition for land use.
Sanitation
Measures designed to protect public health, such as providing clean water and disposing of sewage and waste.
Social Deprivation
The extent an individual or an area lacks services, decent housing, adequate income and employment.
Social Opportunities
The chances available to improve quality of life, i.e. access to education, health care, etc.
Squatter Settlements
An area of (often illegal) poor - quality housing, lacking in services like water supply, sewerage disposal and electricity.
Sustainable Urban Living
A lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual’s or society’s use of the earth’s natural resources.
Traffic congestion
When there is too great a volume of traffic for roads to cope with, and traffic slows to a crawl.
Urban Greening
Process of increasing and preserving open space in urban areas, i.e. public parks and gardens.
Urbanisation
The process by which an increasing percentage of a country’s population comes to live in towns and cities.
Urban Regeneration
Reversing the urban decline by modernising or redeveloping, aiming to improve the local economy.
Urban Sprawl
Unplanned growth of urban areas into the surrounding rural areas.
Waste Recycling
Process of extracting and reusing useful substances found in waste.
