Definitions

• Urbanisation: The physical or human growth of towns and cities
• Re-urbanisation: The trend for the population of city centres to grow/ be redeveloped
• Counterurbanisation: movement of people from urban areas to rural areas
• Infill: Using land in inner city areas for a new purpose
• Suburbanisation: The process of people moving from the city centre to the suburbs
• Burgess model: shows the distribution of different zones within an urban area
• Central Business District (CBD) - the innermost city area, where most shops, business offices and pedestrian zones are located
• Zones of affluence: The zones of a city where a large percentage of the population have higher incomes
• Zones of deprivation: The poorer areas of a city, lacking safe spaces for children to play and have poor housing
• Multi-purpose zones: Some cities have mixed functions - providing places for people to live and work as well as having leisure activities, such as swimming pools
• Greenbelts: Areas of land that are protected from development to prevent urban sprawl
• Greenfield site: a site that has previously not been used for development
• Brownfield site: a development site where older buildings have been demolished and redevelopment is taking place
• Range: distance a consumer is willing to travel for a product
• Catchment area: minimum population size needed to create demand for an item/service
• Catchment area: the area from which a shop or business gets its customers
• Honeypot site: a place of special interest that attracts many tourists and is often congested at peak times
• Carrying capactity: the ability of a landscape or ecosystem to absorb the activity of people without lasting damage
• National park: an area of countryside or occasionally sea or freshwater protected by a country for the preservation of wildlife