32321 Definitions

Question 1

Define Urbanisation

Answer 1

An increase in proportion of a country’s population living in a town or city.

Question 2

Define suburbanisation

Answer 2

The moment of people from living in the inner parts of a city to living on the outer edges. It has be facilitated by the development of transport networks and increase in car ownership. It results in the spread of an urban area.

Question 3

Define Counter-Urbanisation

Answer 3

The movement of people from urban areas into smaller urban areas or rural areas, leap-frogging the rural-urban fringe.

Question 4

Define Urban Resurgence

Answer 4

This is the economic and structural regeneration of an urban area which has suffered a period of decline. This can be initiated by redevelopment schemes.

Question 5

Define urban growth

Answer 5

Increase in total population of a town or city

Question 6

Define urban expansion

Answer 6

The increase in size or geographical footprint of a city