Urban Environments

Question 1

Urbanisation

Answer 1

An increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. This can include rural-urban migration, natural increase and reclassification of rural settlements.

Question 2

Define suburbanisation

Answer 2

The growth of urban areas at their edges (from towns and cities to surrounding villages and rural areas). This may result from the out-migration of population from the inner areas to the suburbs or from inward rural-urban movement.

Question 3

Define counter urbanisation

Answer 3

The movement of population from inner urban areas to new towns, commuter towns or villages on the edge or just beyond the city limits/rural-urban fringe

Question 4

Define rural urban-fringe

Answer 4

the area at the very edge of the city beside the countryside

Question 5

Define megacity

Answer 5

A city with over 10 million residents

Question 6

Why is land price a lot more expensive in the central business district?

Answer 6

CBDs tend to have high rise buildings, hence there being a strong demand for land but a shortage of space