geography 6.1-6.3

• village: a small settlement with a few hundred to a few thousand people
• city: a large settlement with many inhabitants
• settlement: a place where people live
• Hamlet: the smallest type of settlement
• conurbation: the largest type of settlement
• settlement hierarchy: a way of organising settlements into an order based on certain criteria
• rural areas: areas with small populations and a lot of open space
• urban areas: areas with high population densities and less open space
• address density: the number of addresses per square kilometre
• services: facilities that people use in their daily lives
• countryside: rural area
• urbanisation: the growth of cities the movement of people from rural areas to the cities
• central business district(CBD): area of the city which houses large office buildings and many other services, generally found in the city centre
• Zone of transition: area of the city around the CBD. originally housed factories, but these were replaced by houses.
• Working class neighbourhoods: area around the zone of transition, where the houses of factory workers were found
• Garden cities: Neighbourhoods that were built as a response to the bad living conditions in the working class neighbourhoods
• Reconstruction neighbourhoods: neighbourhoods constructed on the edge of cities after the second world war
• Commuter zone: area from which people can commute into the city
• model: a schematic representation of something
• suburbs: newly built neighbourhoods on the edge of the city
• Re-urbanisation: moving back to the city from rural areas
• Gentrification: Restoring run-dow neighbourhoods
• Mechanisation: a process which replaced horses and carriages by machines
• specialised: farmers started growing one or two crops instead of many different varieties
• Rural-urban fringe: the zone where and urban area becomes a rural area
• commuter belt: a zone from which people are able to commute to an urban area on a daily basis
• land use: decision of what to use a plot of land for
• urban sprawl: unsupervised growth of urban areas
• buffer zones: areas marked as buffers to prevent urban sprawl
• Randstad: a conurbation of cities in the western part of the Netherlands
• Green heart: a buffer zone in the Randstad
• Growth centre: a strategy of the Dutch government, allowing new towns to be constructed within the rural-urban fringe to prevent urban sprawl
• vinex location: a strategy where the Dutch government allowed new houses to be constructed within the rural-urban fringe to prevent urban sprawl