Edexcel GCSE Geography B Challenges Urbanising World Key Terms

The ease of access to a place

• Accessibility

• Easability

• Inaccessibilty

• Openess

Communities with a similar origin

• Ethnic enclave

• Community

• Ethnic onclave

• Ethic enclave

Experts work with communities to identify their needs, offer assistance and let people have more control over their lives, often run by non-governmental organisations

• Top down development

• Top up development

• Bottom down development

• Bottom up development

Former industrial areas that have been developed before

• Greenfield sites

• Brownfield sites

• Blackfield sites

• Bluefield sites

The heart of an urban area, often containing a high percentage of shops and offices

• Central Business District (CBD)

• Central Busy District (CBD)

• City Business District (CBD)

• Central Business Development (CBD)

Low quality multi-storey building

• Slums

• Skyscraper

• Chawl

• Shanty

A continuous urban or built-up area, formed by merging towns or cities

• Counter urbanisation

• Conurbisation

• Conurbation

• Metropolitan area

When people leave towns and cities to live in the countryside

• Suburbanisation

• Rural-urban migration

• Urban-rural migration

• Counter-urbanisation

Decreased activity in manufacturing and closure of industries, leading to unemployment

• Industrialisation

• Deindustrialisation

• Urban decline

• Outsourcing

Means one which is official, meets legal standards for accounts, taxes, and workers’ pay and conditions

• Informal economy

• Formal economy

• Formal work

• Formal employment