definitions for urbanisation

Question 1

urbanisation

Answer 1

the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.

Question 2

describe the term process of urbanisation

Answer 2

the process of urbanisation refers to the increasing percentage or proportion of a population living in urban areas of a country.

this trypically involves the movement or shift of people from rural to urban areas or a large influx of migrants into urban areas at a greater rate than into rural areas

Question 3

liveability

Answer 3

the quality of space and the built environment.

the concept of liveability has been linked to a range of factors, for example, quality of life, health, sense of safety, access to services, cost of living, comfortable living standards, mobility and transport, air quality and social participation

Question 4

urban areas

Answer 4

areas where the majority of people are employed in the secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors of the economy

Question 5

rural areas

Answer 5

areas where the structures and functions are associated with primary activities such as agriculture, mining, fishing and forestry

Question 6

urban growth

Answer 6

an increase in the number of people living in urban places

Question 7

demographics

Answer 7

statistical data about the characteristic of a population, such as the age, gender and income of the people within the population

Question 8

urban sprawl

Answer 8

refers to the outward spread of typically low density residential and urban development on the periphery or urban areas

Question 9

invasion and succession

Answer 9

refers to the gradual invasion of one land use type into an area dominated by a different land use, succession has occurred when the invading land use has almost completely transformed the land use in that particular area

Question 10

renewal

Answer 10

the rehabilitation of urban areas, by regeneration, replacement, repair or renovation, in accordance with comprehensive plans, usually initiated by government

Question 11

land use planning

Answer 11

planning policies and regulations that play an important role in shaping the land uses and characteristic of urban and rural places.

land use planning includes, land use zoning, transport planning, grouping of compatible land uses, creation of buffer zones between incompatible land uses, determining residential densities, renewal project and planning for future growth

Question 12

land use competition

Answer 12

the competition that occurs between different land use functions when more than one land use can benefit from a particular location

this competition increases the land value and usally the land use that can deliver the highest return on investment will locate in that particular area.

for example the centre of an urban area or rural area is usually the most accessible and therefore desirable and the most expensive

Question 13

inertia

Answer 13

resistance to movement. for example, factories that would benefit from changing location but instead decisions are made to keep them where they are located

Question 14

agglomeration

Answer 14

a group of similar, but not necessarily the same, land uses that locate in the same area in order to benefit from common infrasture and each others operations.

for example, most industrial areas and major shopping centres are agglomerations

Question 15

rural to urban drift

Answer 15

the general movement of people over time from rural to urban areas or places

Question 16

rural urban fringe

Answer 16

the landscape interface between town and country, or also as the transitional zone where urban and rural land uses mix and often clash

Question 17

what is rural-urban interdependecne

Answer 17

Rural urban interdependence is the interaction between these places. It is the two-way exchange of people (labour), resources, capital and/or information.