Contemporary Urban Environment Flashcards
Urbanisation
Increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities
Causes of urbanisation
Rural to urban Migration
Natural increase
Why urbanisation occurred in HIC
Industrial revolution
Growing towns
Multiplier effect
Improvement in transport and manufacturing
How urbanisation contrasts around the world
Pace
Scale
Causes
Time period
Why urbanisation occurs in LIC
Natural increase
Rural to urban Migration
consequences of urbanisation
Urban sprawl
Shortage of housing LIC
Lack of urban services
Shortage of affordable housing
Unemployment and underemployment
Lack of services and waste disposal
Suburbanisation definition
outward growth of cities which may engulf surrounding villages
Characteristics of suburbs
Greenspaces
Main arterial roads
Low-density housing (detached housing)
New housing developments
Cul de Sac
Schools
Suburanisation causes
De-industrilisation
Car ownership
Improvement in mass transport systems
Suburbanization of new industrial jobs
Counterurbanisation
migration of people from major urban areas to smaller urban settlements and rural areas
Counter urbanisation causes
People want a better quality of life away from crime and pollution
Demand in 2nd homes and early retirement
Car ownership
Improvement in tech
Cheaper land and house prices
Urban resurgence Definition
regeneration of an area economically and structurally of an area that has gone into urban decline
Characteristics of urban resurgence
Heritage buildings
Modern infrastructure
Service sector
young Demographics
Redevelopment of brownfield sites
Urban Resurgence causes
Government lead regeneration schemes
Redevelopment by private companies
Globalisation and technological change
what is a Megacity
cities with populations of 10 million or more
