Basics

Question 1

Define urbanisation:

Answer 1

The growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas.

Question 2

Define urban sprawl:

Answer 2

When the countryside surrounding an urban area starts becoming engulfed by its expansion.

Question 3

Define suburbanisation:

Answer 3

The decentralisation of people living in the inner city to the surrounding areas of the city and rural urban fringe.

Question 4

Define counter-urbanisation:

Answer 4

When people move from large urban areas to smaller urban areas or to rural locations.

Question 5

Define urban resurgence:

Answer 5

The movement of people back into the city centre when an urban area in decline becomes redeveloped and regenerated.

Question 6

Define urban policy:

Answer 6

A measure taken by local governments to develop urban areas through political or legal frameworks.