GCSE Geography Changing Cities Keywords

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Accessibility

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How easy it is to get to a place or move around that place.

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Bottom-up approach

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Projects that involve local people and communities in decision-making, often involving small-scale projects for the poorest.

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Brownfield site

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An area of land that has previously been built on and is ready for redevelopment.

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Business Park

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A group of new offices or modern factories built in pleasant surroundings, usually on the edge of a city.

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Carbon footprint

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A measurement of all the greenhouse gases an individual produces expressed as tonnes (or kg) of carbon dioxide equivalent.

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CBD

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The Central Business District is the commercial and business centre of a town or city where land values are at their highest. The land use is dominated by department stores, specialist and variety good stores and offices, cinemas, theatres and hotels.

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Census

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Population data/statistics collected every ten years in the UK.

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Choropleth map

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A map using different densities of shading to indicate the distribution of different classes of data by administrative unit across an area.

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Competition

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When different companies share the same customers.

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Congestion charge

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A monetary charge for drivers entering a specific section of an urban area, to try to ease congestion and reduce pollution.