Urbanisation

Question 1

What is urbanisation?

Answer 1

An increase in poeple living in towns and cities

Question 2

What are the four segments to the Burgess Model?

Answer 2

1. CBD
2. Inner City
3. Suburbs
4. Rural Urban Fringe

Question 3

What is the CBD?

Answer 3

• Central Business District
• Centre of a city/town
• Shops & offices & where transport routes meet
• High land values
• Tall buildings
• Few people live in the CBD

Question 4

What is the Inner City?

Answer 4

• Found around the CBD
• Mix of poor quality housing & old industrial buildings
• Rund down , deprived
• New housing where derelict land has been redeveloped

Question 5

What is the suburbs?

Answer 5

• Housing areas on edge of the city
• Land is cheaper
• Close enough to access the city
• Middle class famalies live here
• nicer environment
• less crime & pollution

Question 6

What is the rural urban fringe?

Answer 6

• Right edge of the cit
• Both urban and land uses
• fewer & larger houses

Question 7

What causes urbanisation?

Answer 7

• Rural-urban migration
• The movement of people from the countryside to the cities
• happens in richer and poorer countries but for different reasons

Question 8

Why do people in rich countries move from rural areas to cities?

Answer 8

• Occured during industrial revolutions
• jobs were created in urban areas so more poeple moved to get jobs
• People are being encouraged back to where there were run down inner city areas due to redevelopment

Question 9

Why do people in poor countries move from rural areas to cities?

Answer 9

• Shortage of services
• More jobs in urban areas due to better infrastructure and workforce