vocabulary for geography
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GEO VOC
● CENTRIPETAL MOVEMENT: involve the migration of people into towns and
cities.
Inward Movement (Centripetal) Rural to urban migration, gentrification,
re-urbanization, urban renewal Outward Movement (Centrifugal)
Suburbanization, urban sprawl, counter-urbanization Urban Processes can be
seen as inward and outward movements
● CENTRIFUGAL MOVEMENT: also known as Decentralization, the outward
movements of a population from the center of a city towards its edge or
periphery, resulting in the expansion of a city.
● EDGE CITIES: An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside
cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the
central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs,
office space, and retail space.
● GENTRIFICATION: is a process in which traditionally run-down and cheaper
areas of an inner city are improved by the influx of wealthier people who invest
money into the area and renovate the properties, reducing the amount of
affordable housing, displacing low-income residents and fracturing the traditional
communities who live there.
● METROPOLIS: It is essentially about the increasing growth of big cities that
have, as a result, increasing economic and political power over other areas in a
country/region.
● MEGALOPOLIS: A large urban areas in which cities of significant size are
increasingly interconnected.
● REGENERATION: The process of improving a rural or urban place by making
positive changes.
These include knocking down derelict buildings and building
new ones (redevelopment), improving the existing buildings and area (renewal)
or changing the image of a place through redesign and publicity.
● MEGACITY: These are cities over 10 million which face gigantic challenges in
terms of providing infrastructure, services, jobs and housing for people who don't
wait to be invited to migrate to zones where they hope to find a better life.
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LEDCs and NICs the growth rates make them less manageable than....
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