CUE - Urbanisation: Urbanisation

Question 1

What are the 2 main causes of urban growth?

Answer 1

Natural population growth

Rural to urban migration

Question 2

4 pull factors causing rural to urban migration

Answer 2

Employment
Earning money form the informal sector
Better quality social provisions
Perceived better quality of life

Question 3

5 Push factors causing rural to urban population growth

Answer 3

Agriculture
Wars and civil strife
Natural disasters
Population growth
Inadequate medical provision

Question 4

What is the age range of those who are typically migrating to urban areas?

Answer 4

15-40

Question 5

Why are young people attracted to urban areas?

Answer 5

The prospect of higher paid jobs
Better educational opportunities
Greater social and cultural diversity

Question 6

Why are rates of natural increase higher in cities than in surrounding rural areas?

Answer 6

The migrants are in their fertile years

Question 7

Give evidence of the migration of young adults into urban areas.

Answer 7

2001-2011 the population of large city centres in England and Wales more than doubled. The number of residents aged 22-29 nearly tripled to make up almost 50% of the total population.

Question 8

What has encouraged young families to stay in the city instead of moving to the suburbs?

Answer 8

Rising costs of suburban living

Commuting time

Question 9

In LICs, are push factors or pull factors more important?

Answer 9

Push factors

Question 10

Why are there more employment opportunities in urban areas than rural areas?

Answer 10

There is an increasingly high demand for unskilled labour in cities.
Work in factories and service industries is in urban areas better paid than work in rural areas

Question 11

Give examples of jobs in the informal sector.

Answer 11

Providing transport e.g taxi/rickshaw driver.
Prostitution
Selling goods on the street

Question 12

What contributes to the perceived better quality of life in urban areas compared to rural areas?

Answer 12

Images in the media

Question 13

Why is population growth a push factor to people in rural areas?

Answer 13

The same area of land has to support increasing numbers of people, leading to over-farming, soil erosion and low yields.

Question 14

How is the increasing global organisation of agriculture leading to rural urban migration?

Answer 14

Land previously used to grow food for local people is now used to produce cash crops for sale to HICs, driving many traditional rural communities off their land.

Question 15

Give 2 agricultural problems than encourage rural urban migration.

Answer 15

Desertification due to low rainfall.

Systems of inheritance causing land to be subdivided into small plots.