Jose's+Glossary

Teacher's check on Nov.28th, 2009! Comment: Just 5 words in 10 weeks??? And, what about your sentences????  //**The theme park**//: is a land of sliding scale, ranging from building construction to national, conceived or organized around a "theme", communicated a powerful idea, for the reception of visitors and whose existence is part of global culture leisure.

//** landscape **// : In general, landscape is defined as any area of the earth's surface to the interaction of different factors present in it and have a visual reflex in space.  The landscape is defined by its forms, natural or anthropogenic. Any landscape is composed of elements that articulate with each other. These elements are basically of three types, abiotic, biotic and Atropos, shown by human action.

//**Metropolitan Area**//: A metropolitan area is an urban region which includes a central city that gives name to the area and a series of satellite cities that can function as dormitory towns, industrial, commercial and services, organized in a centralized way.

//**Urban Growt:**// is Spatial and demographic expansion of the city, either by physical territorial extension of the urban fabric, by increasing building densities and population or as usually happens, both. This expansion can occur spontaneously or in a planned

//**Social Vulnerability:**// "Social status of risk, difficulty, disabling and supersedes, immediately or in the future, the groups affected, to the satisfaction of both subsistence welfare and quality of life, in the socio-historical and culturally determined"

//**Guideline**//: A set of general rules or instructions to implement something. Synonym of it are the words: directive, instruction, guidance. Whereas land-use planning guidelines identify the core objectives for future land involved and the general criteria for such intervention in the territory. The guidelines do not cover all issues in detail or provide a plan for its comprehensive and strategic approach is now focusing on the processes that determine the future regional development and provide a guiding framework to integrate the territorial dimension into sectoral planning and for territorial strategies at the regional, departmental and local levels.

//**Milestone**// is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile. They are typically located at the side of the road or in a median. They are alternatively known as **mile markers**, **mileposts** or **mile posts** (sometimes abbreviated **MPs**)

//**Slope**//: The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

//**Cement**//: is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. The word "cement" traces to the romans, who used the term "opus caementicium" to describe masonry which resembled concrete and was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder.


 * //Highway://** is a main road for travel by the public between important destinations, such as cities and states. Highway designs vary widely and can range from a two-lane road without margins to a multi-lane, grade separated motorway.


 * //Relief//**: is the elevations or inequalities of a land surface.


 * //Beam//**: is a big piece of timber, metal, or stone used especially as a horizontal support in construction.


 * //Viaduct//**: is a series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads.


 * //Rail transport://** is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways or railroads. Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates international trade and economic growth. Rail transport is capable of high capacity and is energy efficient, but lacks flexibility and is capital intensive.