Cities and Urban Land Use Vocab Flashcard

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Urban area population living in poor conditions.

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Urban Poverty

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Development on city margins with crude shelters from scrap materials.

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Slums

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People illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent, erecting homemade structures.

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Squatter Settlements

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Efforts to bring people back to the city, often involving blight removal, new shopping centers, and cultural attractions.

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Urban Revitalization

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Electricity, clean water, bridges, roads, IT, sewage, and others that are costly to maintain.

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infrastructure

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Difficulties in accessing affordable, quality fresh food relate to socio-economic status, with poorer areas having more fast food and convenience stores than grocery options.

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Food Desert

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Social divisions that maintain hierarchies and reinforce inequalities of economic, cultural, and political power.

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class system

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Comparison of the poor to others in the country

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Relative Poverty

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Living on less than $1 a day

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Absolute Poverty

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City with over 10 million people

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Megacity