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| Question | Answer |
| Urban | An area of land which is mainly covered in buildings. |
| Accessibility | How easy a place is to get to. |
| Access to services | What are the services in the local area and how easy is it for people to use them? |
| Brownfield Site | Derelict urban land that is used for building |
| CBD | Central business district, the central area of a town or city containing mostly shops and offices. |
| Conurbation | A large urban area formed when several settlements merge, e.g. the West Midlands. |
| Counterurbanisation | The movement of people and industry away from large towns and cities. |
| Environmental Quality | An evaluation of how pleasant the environment is. |
| Gentrification | Wealthy people buy properties in poorer areas to do them up and live there. |
| Green Belt | An area of green land around a city where building is restricted by law. |
| Greenfield Site | Rural land that is used for building |
| Heavy Industry | Industry using heavy weight materials and bulky machinery. E.g. car manufacture. |
| Hypothesis | An idea or limited explanation of something real to be used as a starting point for an investigation. The hypothesis will then be accepted or rejected depending on the evidence that is collected. |
| Inner City | The sector of the city surrounding the city centre, typically having factories, terraced housing, grid iron street pattern, very little open space, corner shops etc. |
| Model | Simple version of something real that is used to help us see patterns in the world and explain what is happening. |
| Primary Data | Data that is collected first hand, e.g. through fieldwork. |
| Quality of Life | How content people are with their lives and the environment they live in. |
| Rural | l An area of land which is mainly countryside. |
| Secondary Data | Data that has been collected by somebody else, e.g. 1991 census data from the internet. |
| Socio-economic indicators | Things to do with people and money. People are broken down into groups depending on the type of job that they do. |
| Suburbs | Outer zones of the city. The inner suburbs are older and will typically have semi-detached Outer zones of the city. The inner suburbs are older and will typically have semi-detached houses built in the 1930s. |
| Suburbanisation | The growth of suburbs at the city edge, spreading into the surrounding rural area. |
| Transition Zone | The edge of the CBD, an area that is in transition (changing) with a mix of old factories, newer offices, apartment housing, etc. |
| Urban Redevelopment | A plan to renew or improve urban areas |
| Urban Regeneration | A plan to replace or restore poor quality buildings in a city. |
| Urbanisation | More people living in towns and cities. |
| Visual Environment | How pleasant is the appearance of an area? |
| Ecological Footprint | Theoretical measurement of the amount of land and water a population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its waste. |
| Counter-Urbanisation | Movement of population from inner urban areas to towns/estates/villages on the rural-urban fringe. |
| Urban Sprawl | Unplanned and uncontrolled physical expansion of an urban area into surrounding countryside. Closely linked with suburbanisation. |
| Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) | A broad term given to a variety of transportation systems that, through improvements to vehicles, infrastructure, and scheduling, attempt to use buses to provide a service that is of a higher quality than an ordinary bus line. |
| City Planning | The decision-making process in which community goals and objectives are established, existing resources and conditions analyzed, strategies developed, and investments targeted. |
| Demographics | Selected population characteristics, Commonly-used demographics include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility (in terms of travel time to work or number of vehicles available), educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and area or location. |
| Density | The number of dwelling units or principal buildings or uses permitted per net acre of land. |
| Highrise Building | A tall building or structure, typically a minimum of twelve stories, thus requiring mechanical vertical transportation. |
| Rails-to-trails | Rails-to-trails Former rail corridors that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, and occasionally light motorized traffic. |
| Zoning | Legislative regulations by which a municipal government can control the use and characteristics of buildings and land within its boundaries. |
| Hubs | Urban centres of employment and services. |
| Gateways | Ports, airports and land entry points. |
| Commute | To travel especially by train or car to and from one's daily work in a city. |
| Pedestrian Area | An area where pedestrians have priority over vehicles. |
| Congestion | Overcrowding on roads causing traffic jams. |
| Derelict | Abandoned buildings and wasteland. |
| Detached House | A house standing alone (not joined to another) typical of the wealthy suburb zone of a city. |
| Ethnic Group | This is a group which is defined by race, religion, nationality or culture. |
| Retail Park | An out-of-town shopping centre with a few large warehouse-type stores, selling electrical goods, carpets, D.I.Y. goods, building supplies etc. |
| Ring-Road | A by-pass that provides a route around the CBD. |
| Terraced House | A house within a (usually) long line of joined housing. |
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