What is Urban?
A town or city.
What is Urbanisation?
Growth in the percentage of people living in urban areas.
What is a Low Income Country (LIC)?
A poorer country with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $1,045.
Example: Chad or Bangladesh.
What is a Newly Emerging Economy (NEE)?
A middle-income country that has begun to experience higher rates of economic development, usually with higher levels of industrialisation.
Example: Brazil.
What is a High Income Country (HIC)?
A richer country with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $12,742.
Example: UK or USA.
What is a Megacity?
A city with a population of more than 10 million people.
What is a Push factor?
Forces people away from where they are living.
What is a Pull factor?
Attracts people to move to a particular place.
What is a Squatter settlement?
An area of poor-quality housing, which lacks water supply, sewerage and electricity, which often develops illegally in a city in an LIC or NEE.
What is Dereliction?
Buildings that have been abandoned.
What is a Greenfield site?
An area of land that has not previously been built upon.
What is a Brownfield site?
An area of land that has been used and previously built on.
What is Urban sprawl?
The spread of an urban area outwards into surrounding rural areas.
What is Sustainability?
Meeting the needs of people today, without compromising the needs of future generations.
