Topic 3-urban Challenges

Question 1

Defin urbanisation

Answer 1

Urbanisation is the growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas

Question 2

Urbanisation happening fastest in poorer countries

Answer 2

-50% of world’s population currently live in urban areas and increasing every day
-happened earlier in developing countries e.g industrial revolution. Developed countries have slow rates of urban growth
- a smaller proportion (35%) of population in developing countries currently live in urban areas.
-urbanisation is predicted to continue at a fast rate in regions that still have a large rural population

Question 3

Number of megacities is increasing

Answer 3

-high rates of urbanisation are leading to to growth of megacities.
-a megacity is an urban areas with over 10 million people living
- by 2040 there are 28 megacities-48 predicted by 2035
-2/3 of megacities are in developing and emerging countries mostly in Asia