3.4 Management of urban settlements

Question 1

Slums

Answer 1

Run-down areas of a city characterised by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security

Question 2

Favelas

Answer 2

Brazilian term for an informal, shanty-type settlement.

Question 3

Corticos

Answer 3

Decaying formal housing, mainly in the inner city.

Question 4

Human Development index

Answer 4

Composite index of development devised by United Nations. Includes life expectancy, educational attainment and GDP per capita.

Question 5

Self-help housing initiatives

Answer 5

Partnership between communities and local government where local government provides materials and community supplies labour.

Question 6

Shanty towns

Answer 6

Area of slum housing.

Question 7

Soft infrastructure

Answer 7

Housing, educations, health, leisure and other associated facilities.

Question 8

hard infrastructure

Answer 8

Transportation, communication, sewage water, electricity systems, etc

Question 9

Quality of life

Answer 9

Term that sums up all the factors that affect a person’s general wellbeing.

Question 10

Deprivation

Answer 10

When an individual’s wellbeing falls below a certain level

Question 11

Social exclusion

Answer 11

Process where certain groups are pushed to the margins of society and prevented from participating.

Question 12

In situ urbanisation

Answer 12

Process that occurs when rural settlements transform themselves into urban or quasi-urban.