Changing Places: Urbanisation Flashcards
Urbanisation
The process involving an increase of the proportion of people living in urban areas
Where is most of the urbanisation occurring
The developing world
Percentage of urbanisation is occurring in the developing world
90%
Possible pull factors for migration
Better access to education and health services and employment opportunities
Possible push factors for migration
Poverty, displacement, war and famine
Pull factor
Factors that attract people to another place
Push factor
Factors that motivate people to leave
Types of migrations
Intrastate, interstate, internal and international migration
Migrations classed under internal migration
Intrastate and interstate migration
Intrastate migration
Migration within the same state
Interstate migration
Migration to a different state
Global trend of urbanisation
The world is becoming more urbanised
Consquence of urbanisation
Pollution, megacities and competition for jobs
The consequences can be categorised under ___
Economic, social and environmental
Megacity
A city with a population over 10 million
Emigrants
People who migrate to permanently live in another country
Strategies to create liveable/sustainable cities
Improve public transport, preserve natural assets and use clean energy
Sustainability
Considering the exhaustion of natural resources in order to ensure future security
Liveability
What a place is like to live in, using particular criteria, including environmental quality, crime, education and health and access to services
How does natural population growth affect urbanisation
The advancement of medicine and longer lifespans has the population exploding in populated(urban) areas.
Urban sprawl
Expanding the size of the city
Urban consolidation
Expanding upwards
