Challenges of an Urbanising world keywords Flashcards
Urban meaning
towns and cities.
Rural meaning
the countryside.
Rural to Urban migration meaning
people move into towns and cities from the countryside.
Megacity meaning
a city with a population of more than 10 million.
Primate cities meaning
a city that dominates the economic and political system in a country.
Migration meaning
the movement of people from one place to another.
Internal/National migration meaning
movement from one part of a country to another.
International migration
movement of people from one country to another.
Socio-economic processes
changes related to people and jobs, money or trade.
Pull factor meaning
something attractive about a new place.
Push factor meaning
something they dislike about the place they live in.
Industrialisation meaning
the growth of industry.
Deindustrialisation meaning
industrial decline.
Primary job meaning
the extraction of raw material from the ground or sea.
Secondary job meaning
the manufacture of goods using raw materials.
Tertiary job meaning
the provision of a service.
Quaternary job meaning
the provision of information and expert help.
Developing city meaning
a city that is more like to be an important point of trade regionally, nationally and internationally.
Emerging city meaning
a city that the secondary sector is important and there will be established industrial infrastructure and good national and international transport connections.
Developed city meaning
a city where the tertiary sector dominates and skill and pay varies.
Formal jobs meaning
jobs where people work for regular pay, have employment rights and pay taxes. E.g. street vendors.
Informal jobs meaning
unofficial work, often unskilled, without employment rights and regular pay. E.g. factory workers.
Urbanisation meaning
an increase in percentage of people living in urban areas.
Suburbanisation meaning
people move from the city centre to the edge of the city - the suburbs.
De-industrialisation meaning
industry begins to decline.
Counter-urbanisation meaning
people move out of larger towns and cities to live into villages and rural areas.
Regeneration meaning
run-down inner city areas are redeveloped.
Commercial land use meaning
offices and shops.
Industrial land use meaning
factories and warehouses.
Residential land use meaning
houses.
CBD land use zone meaning
tightly packed roads, town hall, city centre, bus and railway stations, car parks, shops and government offices.
Inner city land use zone meaning
straight roads with terraced houses, factories and industrial areas, possibly redeveloped.
Suburbs land use zone meaning
residential areas, with bigger houses, garages and more space.
Rural-urban fringe land use zone meaning
much further from the CBD, beyond the edge of the city, includes large housing estates.
