Keyword Definition
1. Classifying Arranging data into groups
2. Facilities Companies and organizations that ensure people get what
they need, such as shops, schools, and hospitals.
3. Gated community Fenced and guarded residential area in the city
4. Gentrification Residents renovate their houses, which makes their district
more attractive so that house prices rise.
5. Growth center A place outside the big city where many houses were built for
people who left de city
6. Impoverishment Deterioration of a part of the city.
7. Infrastructure All connections built by people, such as roads, harbors,
pipelines, and internet
8. Interpreting Clarifying the results of your research and concluding.
9. Mapping Representing data on a map
10. Medina The oldest part of the Arab city with narrow, winding streets.
11. Settlement Place where people live, with housing
12. Souk Market in the Arab city.
13. Spatial segregation Sections of the population live in separate districts
14. Special Economic Are in China where, compared with the rest of the country,
Zone (SEZ) lenient laws and low taxes apply to Chinese and foreign
companies.
15. Suburbanisation Migration of people from the city to the surrounding
countryside
16. Urbanisation Increase in the percentage of people living in cities.
17. Ville nouvelle The new part of an Arab city was usually built in the colonial
era
Other keywords needed to understand this chapter:
18. Urbanisation Increase in the percentage of people living in cities.
19. Re-urbanisation Moving back to your old settlement
20. Core The extremely hot center of Earth, another planet, or a star
21. Semi-periphery Countries in between the most industrialized nations and
those other countries that are peripheral
22. Periphery The lesser developed part of a town or region. Usually
located at the edge of the cities/regions and far away from the
developed city/regional center
23. Slums An area with housing that is poorly serviced and/or
overcrowded and therefore unhealthy, unsafe, and unsocial
24. Pull factor An attraction of a country to move to that place
25. Push factor A force to move away from a county
26. Immigration Moving to a different country
27. Emigration Moving away from a country
28. Re-migration To migrate again or back
1. Classifying Arranging data into groups
2. Facilities Companies and organizations that ensure people get what
they need, such as shops, schools, and hospitals.
3. Gated community Fenced and guarded residential area in the city
4. Gentrification Residents renovate their houses, which makes their district
more attractive so that house prices rise.
5. Growth center A place outside the big city where many houses were built for
people who left de city
6. Impoverishment Deterioration of a part of the city.
7. Infrastructure All connections built by people, such as roads, harbors,
pipelines, and internet
8. Interpreting Clarifying the results of your research and concluding.
9. Mapping Representing data on a map
10. Medina The oldest part of the Arab city with narrow, winding streets.
11. Settlement Place where people live, with housing
12. Souk Market in the Arab city.
13. Spatial segregation Sections of the population live in separate districts
14. Special Economic Are in China where, compared with the rest of the country,
Zone (SEZ) lenient laws and low taxes apply to Chinese and foreign
companies.
15. Suburbanisation Migration of people from the city to the surrounding
countryside
16. Urbanisation Increase in the percentage of people living in cities.
17. Ville nouvelle The new part of an Arab city was usually built in the colonial
era
Other keywords needed to understand this chapter:
18. Urbanisation Increase in the percentage of people living in cities.
19. Re-urbanisation Moving back to your old settlement
20. Core The extremely hot center of Earth, another planet, or a star
21. Semi-periphery Countries in between the most industrialized nations and
those other countries that are peripheral
22. Periphery The lesser developed part of a town or region. Usually
located at the edge of the cities/regions and far away from the
developed city/regional center
23. Slums An area with housing that is poorly serviced and/or
overcrowded and therefore unhealthy, unsafe, and unsocial
24. Pull factor An attraction of a country to move to that place
25. Push factor A force to move away from a county
26. Immigration Moving to a different country
27. Emigration Moving away from a country
28. Re-migration To migrate again or back
