Year 10 : Urban Renew and Decay

Define the following terms and include an example of each and explain how your example relates the words:

Aesthetics
Having a sense of the beautiful; characterised by a love of beauty.

Safety
The quality of averting or not causing injury, danger or loss.

Slums
a thickly populated, run-down, squalid part of a city, inhabited by poor people.

Decay
To become decomposed, to decline in excellence

Reconstruction and renewal
Reconstruction: To construct or form again

Renewal: The act of renewing

Transport
To carry, move, or convey from one place to another

Suburbanization
To give suburban characteristics to

Environmental factors
The aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences; surroundings

Light and Sound
Light: something that makes visible or affords illumination

Sound: the sensation produced by stimulant of the organs of hearing by vibration transmitted through the air or other medium.