Geography
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| Infrastructure | network of facilities and systems an organisation needs in order to function
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| Commercial | Places of business e.g shopping centres
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| Residential | Please where people live
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| Industrial | Heavy or toxic industries
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| Administration | Day to day business and duties e.g governments
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| Low- order functions | Provides smaller settlements such as villages and hamlets with grocery shops, service stations etc
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| High- order functions | Provides cities or metropolises with universities and hospitals
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| Conurbation | Urban area that forms when with a merge of several cities, but keep separate identities e.g. Tokyo
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| Metropolis | Large populations, offer a broad range of high- order functions
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| City | Large urban settlement with clear defined boundaries an public functions
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| Town | Urban settlement smaller than a city larger than a village. Offers low- order functions
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| Village | Small settlement, residential population, small number of low- order functions
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| Hamlet | Tiny settlement, small number of residential/ work buildings with possible other low- order functions
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| Urban Sprawl | Outward invasion causing a city's outskirts to be a continuos state of change as rural land is converted to urban use. Cities progressively growing outwards, spreading into the surrounding countryside and invading adjacent towns, shores, undeveloped land
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| Urban Renewable | Better use of vacant and under- utilised land
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| Urban Consolidation | Planning that enhances use of inner- city land by replacing previous low- density land with medium- density townhouses
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| Gentrification | Rundown buildings in older suburbs which are renovated
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| Primate city | Largest city in each state
reasons: it has been built on rivers
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| Ecological Footprint | a measure of the overall environmental impact of human communities including direct local effects, indirect regional, use of recourses and waste it produces
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| Doughnut effect | loss of population and services from inner- city suburbs to outer areas of a city
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| Suburbanisation | Residential sections of the city expand due to:
Population grown, lifestyle values, public transport growth
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| Re- urbanisation | Towns and cities experience loss of population but reverse the decline and begin growth
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| Demographic sustainability | regional areas experiencing marked population decline. Less agricultural labour has been required so loss of employment and there for loss of population
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| Sea change phenomenon | Growth of coastal communities. people moving from non- coastal areas and capital cities to the coast
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| Push factors | Encourage people to leave one place
- unemployment
- expensive housing
- Place of life
- Overcrowding
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| Pull factors | Attract them to another
- Pleasant environemnt
- Affordable housing
- Relaxed lifestyle
- Good climate
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| Hierarchy of Settlements | Vary in size and complexity according to location, political- cultural background, population, infrastructure, services. Ranked according to size and importance.
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| Conurbation | Tokyo
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| Metropolis | Brisbane
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| Large City | Townsville
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| Small City | Gympie
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| Large Town | Proserpine
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| Small Town | Home Hill
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| Village | Wallaville
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| Hamlet | Bulloo Down
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