CUE - movement of people🏙

Question 1

CUE basic facts

Answer 1

• In 2008 50% of worlds pop lived in urban areas
• Rise to 70% by 2050 = 2.5 billion growth with 90% in Africa/Asia
• 41 megacities by 2050

Question 2

Forms of urban growth

Answer 2

• Growth (inwards within an area
• Expansion (Growing outwards in surface area)

Question 3

Urbanisation

Answer 3

Increase in the proportion of the countries population living in urban settlements

Question 4

Suburbanisation

Answer 4

Outward growth of towns and cities to absorbing surrounding rural areas

Question 5

Counter urbanisation

Answer 5

Movement of people and employment away from major settlements

Question 6

Urban sprawl

Answer 6

Urban outward spread consuming smaller towns and villages

Question 7

Re-urbanisation

Answer 7

Movement of people back into cities

Question 8

Graph reading technique (TEAM)

Answer 8

• Trend (Overall direction/patterns)
• Example (Data from graph)
• Analyse (What can be evaluated?)
• Manipulate (Use data)

Question 9

Causes of urban growth

Answer 9

• Natural population growth - younger pop having children
• Rural-urban migration = people moving from countryside