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Human Geography Key Terms – Places and RegenerationHow and Why Places Vary
• Place: geographical spaces shaped by individuals and communities over time
• Rural-urban continuum: the unbroken transition from sparsely populated or
unpopulated, remote rural places to densely populated, intensively used urban
places (town and city centres)
• Regeneration: long-term upgrading of existing places or more drastic renewal
schemes for urban residential, retail, industrial and commercial areas, as well as
rural areas. This sometimes includes conservation to preserve a specific identity
• Quinary: the highest levels of decision making in an economy – the top business
executives and officials in government, science, universities, non-profit
organisations, healthcare, culture and the media
• Location quotient: a mapable ratio which helps show specialisation in any data
distribution being studied
• Gross value added: measures the contribution to the economy of each individual
producer, industry or sector – it is used in calculating GDP
• Postcode lottery: this refers to the uneven distribution of local personal health and
health services nationally
• Glasgow effect: the impacts of poor health linked to deprivation
• Quality of life: the level of social and economic well-being experienced by
individuals or communities measured by various indicators including health,
happiness, educational achievement, income and leisure time
• Functions: the roles a place plays for its community and surroundings
• Characteristics: the physical and human aspects that help distinguish one place from
another, e.g. location, land use, architecture
• Connections: any type of physical, social or online linkages between places
Why Regeneration Might Be Needed
• Sink estate: housing estates characterised by high levels of economic and social
deprivation and crime, especially domestic violence, drugs and gang welfare
• Gated communities: found in urban and rural settlements as either individual
buildings or groups of houses
• Commuter villages: settlements that have a proportion of their population living in
them but who commute out daily or weekly, usually to larger settlements either
nearby or further afield
• Lived experience: the actual experience of living in a particular place or environment
– this can have a profound impact on a person’s perceptions and values
How Regeneration is Managed
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