Glossary

Animals and vegetable waste resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking and serving of foods. It does not include food waste from industrial processing

 A residential area with defensive measures such as gates, fences and security guards to exclude social groups deemed undesirable.

 The process of neighborhood upgrading by relatively affluent incomers who move into a poorer neighborhood in sufficient numbers to displace lower-income groups and transform its social identity.

  A policy used in urban planning to retain a “belt” of the natural environment around urban areas, because if there’s still a tiny strip of green we can keep pretending we’re not destroying the Earth

The condition in which the earth's average global temperature is normally higher than predicated by radiation laws by virtue of the presence of capable of absorbing outgoing long-wave radiation.

Green infrastructure is strategically planned and managed networks of natural lands, working landscapes and other open spaces that conserve ecosystem values and functions and provide associated benefits to human populations.

The length of the green phase plus its change intervals in seconds (in a traffic signal)

 The opposite of Brownfield land: land that is untouched and pristine.

 Buildings or real estate land that is economically useless, such as “dead malls” with seas of empty asphalt around them.  

 Pretty obvious what this means. A plan in the shape of a grid.

Residential density is calculated by taking the total resident population over the entire land area of a residential zone including all roads, parks/ playgrounds, educational institutions, facilities areas etc.

A premise of size not less than 4000 sqm comprising of residential flats with basic amenities like parking, park, convenience shops, public utilities etc.

These are small towns or larger villages that have the potential of becoming nuclei for the future economic, social and political development of the surrounding areas.