The unbroken transition from sparsely populated or unpopulated, remote or unpopulated, remote rural places to densily populated, intensively used urban places (towns and city centres).
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Regeneration
Long-term upgrading of existing places, this sometimes includes conservation to preserve a specific identity.
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Quinary
The highest level of decision making in the economy (top business executives, government and scientists)
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Gross value added
Measures the contribution to the economy of each individual producer, industry or sector. It is used in calculating GDP.
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Location Quotient
A mapable ratio which helps show specilisation in any data distribution being studied
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Glasglow effect
The impacts of poor health linked to deprivation.
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Quality Of Life
The level of social and economical well-being experianced by individuals or communities measured by various indicators including health, happiness, educational acheivement, income and leaisure time.
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Gentrification
The change in social structure of a place when affluent people move into a location.
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Studentification
The cluster of students in certain areas of towns and cities due to the educational opportunities.
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Sink Estate
Housing estates characterised by high levels of economic and social seprivation and crime, especialy domestic violence, drugs and gang warfare
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Gated Communities
Found in urban and rural settlements as either individual buildings or groups of houses. They are landscapes of surveillance
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Regeneration
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Long-term upgrading of existing places, this sometimes includes conservation to preserve a specific identity.
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