Key words G2: Investigating settlement change in MEDCs

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A process where the amount of people living in an urban area increases
Urbanisation
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The process where an area's career sector changes (e.g from primary to manufacturing)
Sectoral Shift
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The process where people move out of urban areas
Counter Urbanisation
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The process where people move back into cities
Re urbanisation
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The spread of an urban area
Urban sprawl
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An ordered diagram of settlements
Settlement heirarchy
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The centre of a city
Centeral Business District
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The process where more students move into an area
Studentification
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Areas where ethnic groups join together
Ghettoisation
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The problem where original residents of areas move because of ghettoisation
White flght
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The regeneration of an area to improve it
Gentrification
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agricultural, unused land
Greenfield site
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used industrial area
Brownfield site
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Preserved land around an urban area
Greenbelt
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The process where an area's career sector changes (e.g from primary to manufacturing)

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Sectoral Shift

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The process where people move out of urban areas

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The process where people move back into cities

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Card 5

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The spread of an urban area

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