betterment (en)

(noun) an improvement that adds to the value of a property or facility

Beveridge Report (en)

officially "Social Insurance and Allied Services"; an influential document from November 1942 detailing the founding of the welfare state in the UK; chaired by Liberal economist William Beveridge

gentrification (en)

(noun) the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

inveigle (en)

(verb) to win over by wiles; entice / (verb) to acquire by ingenuity or flattery; wangle

land banking (en)

the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development

ontology (en)

(noun) a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being / (noun) a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence