Urban Form Flashcards
Urban Form
This refers to the physical characteristics of built up areas including shape, size density, and make up of settlements.
Town centre mixed developments
This is the redevelopment of Central Business Districts to blend residential, commercial, cultural industrial and institutional land uses. They promote 24 – 7 land use.
Cultural and Heritage quarters
These are parts of the city which develop a cultural or heritage quarter to encourage growth and revitalise the local economy in the arts and creative industries.
Fortress developments
These are urban areas which have a strong focus on security and use walls, guarded entrances and security firms to defend a residential or business area. They are based on the ideas of “Defensible Space”
Gentrified areas
An area of a town or city - often in the inner city - which has been regenerated by individual people or groups of people.
Edge cities
Modern suburban areas which act as alternative central business district – including shops, offices and entertainment. They are characteristic of low density suburbanisation as in the USA
Post-modern western city
This is an urban form associated with changes in urban structure – multi- nodal, iconic and futuristic architectural design and planning and reflects changes social and economic conditions e.g. ethnic and cultural diversity and post-industrial economies.
Social segregation
This refers to when different groups are separate from each other – e.g. poorer people are concentrated in a specific area of a city.
Economic inequality
This refers to the range in wealth and/or deprivation within society.
Multiculturalism
This refers to a society which recognises values and promotes the contributions of diverse cultural heritages and ancestries of various groups.
Point of entry
Usually a transport hub, railway, airport or port, where immigrants entry the destination country.
