Section Four - Settlement Flashcards
Push factors from the countryside to the city?
Few jobs and low wages
Lack of services
Poor harvests (in ledc’s sell extras for income)
What’s urbanisation?
The growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas.
Pull factors from countryside to the city?
More jobs and higher wages
More stable income
Better infrastructure
Better services
Impacts of urbanisation in urban areas?
Overcrowding
Increased traffic/pollution/waste
Impacts of urbanisation in rural areas?
Increasingly elderly population
Even fewer services
Managing urbanisation in urban areas?
Building more houses
Attracting more industry (more jobs)
Easing traffic/pollution by improving public transport
Improving services like water/electricity
Managing urbanisation in rural areas?
Investing in local services
Giving loans
Improving local transport
What’s counter urbanisation?
People moving out of cities into rural areas
Push factors of counter urbanisation?
Pollution/traffic
Higher crime rates
Houses can cost more
Pull factors of counter urbanisation?
Better transport links
Growth of IT - more people can work from home
New out of town business parks - more jobs available
Rural impacts of counter urbanisation?
Increased demand of houses
Commuters use shops closer to work
Urban impacts of counter urbanisation?
Inner city areas with high crime/pollution become empty
Commuters prefer to shop on outskirts so service and shops in the centre lose out
Managing counter urbanisation in rural areas.
Make policies to provide more houses
Investing in services
Managing counter urbanisation in urban areas?
Redeveloping urban areas
Regenerating shopping areas
What is the CBD?
Central Business District
What are the 4 main parts of a city?
CBD
The Inner City
The Suburbs
The Rural-Urban Fringe
Social needs of new developments?
More housing
More room for social activities
Better transport systems and routes
Economics needs of new developments?
More jobs
Environmental needs of new developments?
More waste disposal systems
More green spaces
What is a high order good?
Goods only bought occasionally
What is a low order good?
Goods that are bought frequently e.g milk and bread these are usually cheap
What’s the threshold population?
The minimum population to support a shop.
What’s the sphere of influence?
The area that people come from to visit a shop
