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Urban Environments
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- 1Distance-decay PrincipleStates that the land value decreases with distance from the peak land value intersection in the CBD.
- 2Urban Ecological FootprintThe land area required to sustain a population of any size.
- 3Eco-cityA city designed to have minimal environmental impact. It uses land efficiently, practices reuse and recycling as well as waste minimization.
- 4Urban Heat IslandUrban areas that are usually 2-4˚C warmer than the surrounding countryside.
- 5Brown AgendaA concentration of environmental problems in rapidly growing cities. Components are the issues caused by limited availability of land, water and services, and problems such as toxic hazardous waste, water/air/soil pollution, industrial accidents.
- 6Central Business District (CBD)The commercial and economic core of a city. It is the most accessible to public transport and the location with the highest land values.
- 7Residential SegregationThe physical separation of population by culture, income or other criteria.
- 8Sustainable Urban Management StrategyAn approach to urban management that seeks to maintain and improve the quality of life for current and future urban dwellers. Aspects of management may be social (housing quality, crime), economic (jobs, income) and environmental (air, water, land and resources).
- 9Urban HierarchyA national arrangement of urban areas, for example from one large city to many small villages.
- 10Bid-rent TheoryExamines the different upper limits of rent retailers, offices, residents are willing to bid for.
- 11UrbanizationThe process by which an increasing percentage of a country's population come to live in towns and cities. This may be due to migration and natural increase.
- 12MegacityLarge metropolitan area with 10 million or more inhabitants.
- 13Urban SprawlThe unplanned and uncontrolled physical expansion of an urban area into the surrounding countryside. It is closely linked to the process of suburbanization.
- 14SuburbanizationThe outward growth of towns and cities to engulf surrounding villages and rural areas. This may result from out-migration of population from the inner urban areas to the suburbs, or from inward rural-urban movement.
- 15SuburbA residential area within or just outside the boundaries of a city.
- 16Counter-urbanizationA process involving the movement of population away from inner urban areas to a new town, new estate, commuter town or village on the edge or just beyond the city limits or rural-urban fringe.
- 17Brownfield SiteAbandoned, derelict, or underused industrial buildings and land, which may be contaminated but have potential for redevelopment.
- 18Re-urbanizationThe development of activities to increase residential population densities within the existing built-up area of a city. This may include the redevelopment of vacant land and the refurbishment of housing and the development of new business enterprises.
- 19Centripetal MovementsMigration of people into towns and cities, stimulated by push and pull factors.
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