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Residential: Designed for people to live in U
Robust: Strong and healthy
Urbanisation: The process of making an area more
Root: The basic cause, source or origin of something urban

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Satellite city: Smaller municipalities that are adjacent Vicinity: The area near or surrounding a particular
to a major city which is the core of a metropolitan place
area
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Saturation point: The stage at which no more of a
substance can be absorbed into a vapour or dissolved Website: A set of related web pages located under a
into a solution single domain name
Sewage: Waste water and excrement conveyed in Wetland: An area of land that is saturated with water
either permanently or seasonally
sewers
Slum: A squalid and overcrowded urban street or
district inhabited by very poor people Chapter 5 - Natural and Man-made
Disasters
Smart city: A designation given to a city that
incorporates information and communication A
technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and
Accumulate: Gather together or acquire an increasing
performance of urban services such as energy,
number or quantity of
transportation and utilities in order to reduce
Adverse: Harmful
resource consumption, wastage and overall costs
Anthropogenic: Mostly meant for environmental
Sophisticated: Having, revealing, or involving a great
pollution and pollutants, originating in human
deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion
activity
and culture
Anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease
Squatter: A person who unlawfully occupies an
about something with an uncertain outcome
uninhabited building or unused land
Avalanche: A mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling
Standard of living: The degree of wealth and material
rapidly down a mountainside
comfort available to a person or community
Sustainability: The ability to exist constantly B
Sustainable city: A city designed with consideration Bengal famine: Famines in 1769, 1877, 1899 and 1943
for social, economic, environmental impact and that aff ected the lower Gangetic Plain of India from
resilient habitat for existing populations, without Bihar to the Bengal region and resulted in the death
compromising the ability of future generations to of millions of people
experience the same Blizzard: A severe snowstorm with high winds
Sustainable: Causing little or no damage to the Breach: Make a gap in and break through a wall,
barrier or defence
environment and therefore able to continue for a
Bush fi re: A fi re in scrub or a forest, especially one that
long time
spreads rapidly
Synonymous: Closely associated with or suggestive
of something C

T Casualty: A person killed or injured in a war or accident
Catastrophe: An event causing great and usually
Typhoid: An acute illness characterized by fever
sudden damage or suff ering
caused by infection with the bacterium Salmonella
Cesspool: An underground container for the
typhi
temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage

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