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New Geography Words

Can anyone think of some recently invented geography words (with a small definition please) ? They can be your own inventions, but preferably fairly recent words and unknown to non-geographers?

Thanks x

So far I have very few:

1) NIMBY - not in my back yard

2) boomburb - a suburb undergoing rapid population growth

3) aerotropolis - a city in which the layout, infrastructure, and economy are centered around a major airport

Reply 1

Rob24601

glocalisation is one that always gets me :P

Reply 2

Sam_B

DINKY- dual income no kids yet

look at the "fav geog words" thread in the uni geog section :smile:

Reply 3

weirdloverwilde

Sam_B

DINKY- dual income no kids yet

look at the "fav geog words" thread in the uni geog section :smile:

DINKY is from the 1980s

Reply 4

Carreh

Well in the scale of geography thats pretty new :rolleyes:

and quite alot of people dont know what it means

Reply 5

weirdloverwilde

in the scale of geology it's very recent
human geography is a rapidly expanding subject, most social theory from 20 years ago is obsolete in today's society, however, dinkys still exists. I only know a few dinkys and they annoy me (however, i always find things about people that annoy me)