Place and Liveability Glossary

The rich variety of all life forms on Earth, including plants and animals.

An image of a building taken from the road or footpath, at street level.

Elements such as wind, soil, flowing water, plants and animals that influence the characteristics of an area.

Moving from place to place, usually when seasons change.

Describes a place that is distant from major population centres.

A group of people living in a particular region.

The act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small coastal town.

Building that requires fewer resources when being built, and uses power and water efficiently.

A city that people want to live in, which safe, well planned and prosperous and has a healthy environment.

A simple labelled drawing of an area using a bird’s-eye view.

Cost can be met from a person’s income.

A place that has been constructed or created by people.

Describes the relatively mild climate experienced in the zones between the tropics and the polar circles.

To regularly make a journey such as from home to work.

Travelling retiree.

Describes a region in which few people live.

Specific part of the Earth’s surface that has been identified and given meaning by people.

An image taken from above an object; also known as a bird’s-eye view.

Thinly scattered or unevenly distributed; often used when referring to population density.

The number of people living in square kilometre. Example: low, medium and high.

Feeling of belonging to a place and of a place being a part of a person’s identity.

Describes workers who fly to work in remote places, work 4-8 or 12 day shifts and then fly home.

A natural place that has been almost untouched or unchanged by the actions of people.

The facilities, services and installations needed for a society to function, such as transport and communication systems

Reasons that encourage people to leave a place and go somewhere else.

The way things are spread across an area.

Where a point on the Earth’s surface is to be found.

A drawing or map that contains our memory of the layout and distribution of features in a place.

Taken advantage of

Double Income No Kids – two income family with no children and high disposable income.

Once flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted, usually as a result of the exhaustion of some resource.

Leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small country town, in the bush, or on the land.

Nomad, constantly moving around the oceans fishing and collecting seafood, and living most of their lives on the water.

Enclosed housing estate.

Any area of varying size that has one or more characteristics in common.

Positive aspects of a place which attract people to come and live in a place.