Theme 1= ALL KEY WORDS
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- Geography-Theme1 key terms
- Rural: an area of countryside
- Urban: a built up area like a town or city
- Quality of life: the happiness, well being and satisfaction of a person
- Standard of living: Influences on the lives of people that can be measured
- Housing tenure: the legal arrangements by which people live in their housing
- Formal settlements: homes where the householders have legal rights to the land
- Informal settlements: homes where the householder have no legal rights to the land.
- Cathcment area: The area from which a shop attracts it's cusotmers.
- Range: The furthest distance a customer is willing to travel to get to a shop
- Threshold population: The number of customers below which a shop will not make enough profit to stay open.
- Acceptability: the ease with which in this case, a person is able to reach and use a service
- Asylum Seeker: a form of refugee with a fear of persecution in their original country for reasons such as politics, religious, ethnicity.
- Re-urbanization: A move of people inward, towards a city center.
- Greenfield site: An area of land that has not been used before fir building
- Brownfield site: An area of re-development that has already been built upon
- Green belt land: a government policy which is used to prevent the spread of cities into the countryside in which an area of land surrounding the urban area is protected form development
- Gentrification: The conversion and upgrading of existing building as an alternative to demolishing and replacing them with new properties.
- Stakeholders: These are people(or groups) who have either a direct or indirect interest in planning issues
- Sustainable Communities: Communities designed to have a minimum impact on the environment
- Counter urbanization: urban to rural migration
- Honey pot site: A place of special interest that attracts many tourists.
- Gentrification: The conversion and upgrading of existing building as an alternative to demolishing and replacing them with new properties.
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