topic 4: keywords

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  • bottom up development
    self help schemes by locals; given monetary help & advice
  • central business district (CBD)
    main financial centre with high land value
  • counter-urbanisation
    people from cities to countryside
  • connectivity
    how city connected to other settlements & countries
  • cultural
    shared way of life in society
  • decentralisation
    spreading power of people away from central authority
  • degree of urbanisation
    amount of build-up areas that has developed in a region
  • deindustrialisation 

    reduction of industrial activity causing factories to close down
  • what does deindustrialisation cause factories to do
    close down
  • what type of land value does the CBD have
    high land value
  • density of population
    number of people in an area
  • detached houses
    houses not joint together
  • developed country
    country with very high human development
  • developing country
    country with low human development
  • emerging country
    high & medium development
  • emigration
    process of moving out of a country
  • enclosure act
    stopped villagers using open fields; couldn't make a living & had to move to industrial places for a better life
  • energy-efficient housing
    less energy used to provide same level of heat or power
  • environmental
    our surroundings- natural or human
  • globalisation
    way companies' ideas & lifestyles spread around world
  • human development index (HDI)
    measurement of life expectancy, access to education & gross national income per capita used to assess progress of a country
  • immigration
    process of moving into a country
  • industrial revolution
    transition from creating goods by hand to using machines in factories; happens on a LARGE SCALE
  • industrialisation
    growth of industrial activity in region, inc making products in factories
  • inner city
    next to CBD; former industrial area_ flats, some retail
  • informal settlements
    housing built on land that occupants down own & doesn't meet housing regulations
  • international migration
    movement of people from 1 country to another with intention of staying there for at least a year
  • major city
    city with population of at least 200,000
  • major urban centre
    high population density & made of houses. factories & transport routes- referred to as BUILD-UP areas