Changing Cities

• Urban sprawl is when new buildings are built on the outskirts of towns and cities as they expand into surrounding countryside
• De-industrialisation is the process of a city becoming less and less industrialised.
• Site - the area a city is on

  Situation - the area a city is surrounded by
• Urbanisation is the process of people moving into cities.
• Primary Sector - Extraction

  Secondary Sector - Manufacturing

  Tertiary Sector - Retail

  Quaternary Sector - Research and Development
• Sub-urbanisation - Moving into the outer regions of a city

  Counter-urbanisation - Moving out of a city

  Re-urbanisation - Moving back into a city
• De-centralisation is the process of people and businesses moving out of the CBD and into the suburbs.
• Sustainability is meeting the needs of the present while not compromising the needs of the future.
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• Top-down - Government-led Solutions

  Bottom-up - Local-led Solutions
• Globalisation is the process of different parts of the Earth getting more and more connected with each other.
• Deindustrialisation is caused by Globalisation, cheaper labour abroad, government policies and mechanisation.
• Greenfield - Sites that have never been built on before

  Brownfield - Sites that used to be built on
• The CBD - Centre of a city
• The Twilight Zone - Used to be urbanised, but is not now
• The Inner City - The series of terraces and other small house types
• The Suburbs - Series of residential area.
• The Rural Urban Fringe - Outskirts of a city, has the best housing.