Lecture 2 ( Urban geographies)

Question 1

What % of the UK’s population live in urban areas ?

Answer 1

80%

Question 2

Suburbanisation

Answer 2

Population shift from central urban areas into suburbs in the formation of urban sprawl.

Question 3

UN predict that by 2030, what % of the worlds population will live in cities ?

Answer 3

60%

Question 4

Population growth in urban areas will mainly occur where ?

Answer 4

3rd world countries and their big cities (e.g Sao Paulo and Shanghai) India and China

Question 5

Where has suburbanisation increased ?

Answer 5

North-west Europe

Question 6

Why has suburbanisation increased ?

Answer 6

City is seen as derelict, unsafe, dirty place.

Question 7

In the USA, what two things has this out-migration been ?

Answer 7

socially and racially selective

Question 8

Gentrification

Answer 8

The process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste. Economic decline of older industrial cities saw rise in global cities. Prices of property has soared.