CUE - LSQ Flashcards by Immy Bluck

What is the current global population?

8 billion

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What is the term used for a change over time?

Temporal

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What is the term used for a change over an area?

Spatial

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What term is used for the increase in proportion/% of people living in towns and cities?

Urbanisation

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What term is used when towns and cities merge?

Conurbation

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What two key factors drive urbanisation?

rural to urban migration
natural population increase

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Which two continents are seeing the fastest rates of growth in their towns and cities?

Asia and Africa

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What term is used for a city for over 20 million inhabitant?

Meta city

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What factors lead to higher birth rates in many urban areas? (Lots of options)

incr younger population have more children > high fertility levels
better services e.g. healthcare so more survive
more people wealthy enough to have children

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What term is used when something does not fit a particular pattern?

Anomalies

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What do the countries Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara have in common?

They are the 3 countries with the highest rates of urbanisation in Africa

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What continent are Gabon, Reunion and Western Sahara all from?

Africa

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What is a single large city called?

Primate city

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What term is used for the physical spreading of an urban area?

Urban sprawl

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What is the method called when ‘potential slums target areas’ are marked into individual lots and basic utilities are installed before any resisters appear?

Site and service

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What does NGO stand for?

Non-governmental organisation

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What does SDI stand for?

Slum Dwellers International

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What term is used to describe employment that is unregulated?

The informal sector

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What term is used for the expansion of urban areas due to the building if mainly new houses at the edge of the area?

Suburbanisation

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What term is used for the long-term decline of industry leading to significant social and economic changes?

Deindustrialisation

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What term is used the process of redistributing people, functions and power away from the centre of an urban area to the periphery?

Decentralisation

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Which country was the first in the world to experience the process of suburbanisation?

USA

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What period was the fastest for house building in the UK?

1950s-1960s interwar

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Name the two most frequent used house types in the suburbanised zone of an urban area?

Semi-detached and detached

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What year was the Ribbon Development Act introduced?

1935

What planning tool is used to prevent urban sprawl?

Green Belt sites

How many purposes are there for the green belt tool? NEED TO ADD WHAT THEY ARE

Name the processes that cause the movement of people from larger urban settlements into smaller urban settlements and rural areas? (2)

- counter urbanisation - decentralisation

How many distinct trends are there for counter urbanisation and decentralisation? WHAT ARE THEY

Name the 2 distinct groups most likely to move due to counter urbanisation and decentralisation?

- young people with families - older people

Name the process: The investment of capital and ideas into rundown city areas to revitalise and renew its economic, social, and/or environment condition?

Regeneration

Name the process: The movement of people back into urban areas - generally the inner city but can include the CBD. It refers to both the economic and structural aspect of the city

Resurgence

The term use for the increased use of machinery

Mechanisation

What sector of the employment structure would leisure and transport be included in

Tertiary

What does UDC stand for?

Urban Development Corporation?

What decade were UDC’s introduced?

1980s

What was the first and largest of the UDC’s?

LDDC, docklands

What two types of investment were made for UDC’s?

- public - private

What type of investment attracted the larger sector of money for UDC’s?

Private

What type of scheme was a UDC?

Property led regeneration

What term is used for when there is involvement of the local authority and local people from the start?

Holistic

In what decade was City Challenge Introduced?

1990s

What is the name of our City Challange case study?

Manchester, City Hulme

What term is used for a city with at least 1 million residents?

Millionaire city

What is the term used for a city with at least 10 million residents?

Mega city

What is the term used fora city with at least 20 million residents?

Meta city

Name the 4 types of mega cities

1. Immature 2. Maturing 3. Established 4. Consolidating

Name the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange?

Globalisation

Name the term that refers to the extent by which a geographical area, an economy or society is becoming information-based?

Informatisation

The term used for the information carried and spread by technology e.g. the internet

Codified

The term used for the information transferred based on discussion and face to face contact

Tactic

The term used for a city with a ‘global’ influence

World city

Term used when referring to the spatial structure and organisation of an area

Urban morphology

The number of urban zones in an urban model + name them in the correct order

4 1. CBD 2. Inner city 3. Inner suburbs 4. Outer suburbs

What does PLVI stand for?

Peak land value intersection

What term is used for decreasing land value from the CBD?

Distance decay

What do science parks usually have links with?

Universities

What term is used for slightly a different approach to regenerating urban areas that focuses upon culture and heritage?

Cultural and Heritage Quarters

What term is used for the self-contained settlements which have emerged beyond the original city boundary and have developed as cities in their own right - characterised by mixed office, residential + less ire space?

Edge cities

What term is used for landscapes designed around security, protection, surveillance and exclusion?

Fortress landscapes

Name our case study for gentrification

Notting Hill

Name the term for the difference between levels of living standards, income, etc across the whole ecnomic distribution

Economic inequality

Name the term for when groups of people live apart from the larger population due to factors such as wealth, ethnicity, religion and age

Social segregation

Name the term for economic and social problems faced by reindents in areas of multiple deprivation

Urban social exclusion

Name the term for the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society

Cultural diversity

Name the term for a group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have settled elsewhere in the world

Diaspora

What does IMD stand for?

Index of multiple deprivation

How many domains are covered by the IMD?

How many different languages are spoken in London?

300

Name the two case study areas we looked at in Worcester linked to the IMD

- Rainbow Hill - St Peter’s

What do the letters UHIE represent?

Urban Heat Island Effect

What term is used for human sources of heat?

Anthropogenic

What term is used for the relative reflective nature of surfaces?

Albedo

What term is used to describe the high death toll which is created when fog traps pollutants to create toxic smog?

Airpocalyse

What term is used for when the pressure in the gap between two buildings causes the wind to pick up speed and reach high velocities?

Venturi effect

What number is associated with the finest particle matter?

PM2.5

What does AQI represent?

Air quality index

What do the letters ULEZ represent?

Ultra Low Emission Zone

Which organisation monitors UK targets linked to pollution?

DEFRA

How many key atmospheric pollutants do they monitor? WHAT ARE THEY

What term is used for surfaces that wont let liquid in?

Impermeable/ impervious

Name the term for precipitation causing discharge in the river to rise?

Rising limb

The gap between peak rainfall and peak discharge

Lag time

Units used to measure discharge + what does the unit mean

Cumecs M^3 per second

Name the type of engineering for flood plain zoning

Soft

Name the type of engineering for afforestation

Soft

Name the type of engineering for levees

Hard

What does the term SUDS mean?

Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems

Give one other benefit of green roofs other than managing flooding

Increased photosynthesis to combat increasing CO2 levels

What do the letters MSW represent?

Municipal Solid Waste

Does MSW include industrial, medical, agricultural or radioactive waste?

Who set the waste targets?

DEFRA

What do the letters WEEE represent?

Waste electrical and electronic equipment

Name the term for the process of recovering compounds/ elements that would have gone to landfill

Urban mining

Name the term for the journey of waste from source to disposal

Waste stream

What are the three R’s?

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Marine dumping - when was waste sewage sludge banned in The UK?

1998

Marine Dumping - when was radioactive waste banned in The UK?

1999

Name the term for the amoun of material (KG/HH/Yr) that is recycled and/or composted instead of going to landfill

Total diversion rate

What are the WHO?

World Health Organisation

Name the 4 pillars for achieving urban sustainability

1. Social development 2. Economic development 3. Environmental development 4. Urban governance

CUE - LSQ Flashcards

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