Urban studies vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The central business district. This is the core of a city where you can find the best transport links and services.
  2. 4. A city or urban area with a population larger than 10 million
  3. 8. Growth in the percentage of people living and working in urban areas
  4. 12. Also known as the twilight zone
  5. 13. Acute overcrowding caused by high densities of traffic, business and people
  6. 15. The improvement of old houses and the addition of amenities in an attempt to bring new life to old inner city areas.
Down
  1. 1. A Brazilian term for an informal, shanty-type settlement.
  2. 2. The process by which people living in one place, travel to another place to work.
  3. 3. A large, densely populated urban area.
  4. 5. An area on the edge of a large town or city where people live who work in the town or city
  5. 6. urban migration The movement of people from the countryside to the city
  6. 7. An area of slum housing built of salvaged materials and located either on the city edge or within the city on hazardous ground previously avoided by urban development
  7. 9. Revolution The growth and development of manufacturing industry and the factory system which began in the UK in the eighteenth century.
  8. 10. Developer of the sector model
  9. 11. A series of rings with a common centre, like Burgess's model
  10. 14. A continuous stretch of urban settlement which results from towns cities and conurbations merging together.