Urbanisation

Question 1

What does CBD stand for?

Answer 1

Central business district

Question 2

What is a CBD?

Answer 2

The centre of the city where there is the most shops and industries

Question 3

What is a commuting village?

Answer 3

A rural village separate from the city but can access the main city by commuting by car, trains etc for work

Question 4

What is counter urbanisation?

Answer 4

Migration away from a city because of urban problems (crimes, congestion etc)

Question 5

What is de-centralisation?

Answer 5

The movement of population, shops, offices and industries away from CBD’s into areas of housing, retails business parks and suburbs

Question 6

What is dereliction?

Answer 6

Where buildings are unused or unoccupied

Question 7

What is deindustrilisation

Answer 7

Declining levels of industry in an area which leads to extremes in unemployment

Question 8

What is globalisation?

Answer 8

The increasing connections between places and people through ideology, trade and cultural ideas.

Question 9

What is integrated transport?

Answer 9

A system that links different types of transport to give access to visitors to all parts of city

Question 10

What is international migration?

Answer 10

Where people move from one country to another for work or long term residence

Question 11

What is a low income country?

Answer 11

A country that is of low wealth and has a low development.

Question 12

What is a mega city?

Answer 12

A city with population large than 10 million

Question 13

What is a middle income country?

Answer 13

A country of sufficient wealth and good level of development

Question 14

What is a multicultural city?

Answer 14

A city that shares and encourages different cultures aside from the national one

Question 15

What is net migration?

Answer 15

The total number of people entering a city minus the people leaving the cit

Question 16

What is population density?

Answer 16

The number of people living per square metre of land. It is a measure of how squashed together or distributed populations are

Question 17

What is the quality of life?

Answer 17

The environment and community a person is apart of, as well as their health and access to benefits

Question 18

What is regeneration?

Answer 18

Upgrading existing areas to improve its appearance or reputation by constructing new buildings for urban, industrial and commercial areas

Question 19

What is remittance

Answer 19

A family member living in a different country can send money back to their country of origin to support their family substantially.

Question 20

What is reurbanisation?

Answer 20

Migrating into an area of city which may have been abandoned in the past

Question 21

What is rural — urban migration?

Answer 21

People move from rural areas to urban areas for job benefits or factors which improve quality of life

Question 22

What is social inequality?

Answer 22

The difference of quality of life between groups of people based on age, income, gender, ethnicity or appearances

Question 23

What are squatter settlements?

Answer 23

Clusters of temporary housing in which migrants or low income families to live in, usually made on unfavourable land

Question 24

What is suburbanisation?

Answer 24

Migration to live on the periphery (suburbs) of a city.

Question 25

What are suburbs?

Answer 25

Residential land surrounding the city, offering more space, cheaper land bit further from the CBD

Question 26

What are transnational companies?

Answer 26

A business with operations in more than one country

Question 27

What is urbanisation?

Answer 27

The increase of the population living in urban areas

Question 28

What is urban sprawl?

Answer 28

An urban area expanding and building on surrounding green areas of land

Question 29

What is a world city?

Answer 29

A city with global influences through politics, businesses or travel