Urbanisation

Question 1

What is urbanisation?

Answer 1

The process where an increasing proportion of the population lives in towns and cities.
There is a reduction living in rural areas.

Question 2

Urbanisation is a worldwide process, how?

Answer 2

It began at different times in different parts of the world and occurred at contrasting paces.

Question 3

What are the 2 main causes of urbanisation?

Answer 3

Rural to urban migration.

Natural increase.

Question 4

Who are the people who move to cities?

Answer 4

Young people resulting in high levels of natural increase.
High proportion of young adults results in high levels of birth.
Falling death rates.

Question 5

When did urbanisation begin in MEDCs?

eg USA and UK.

Answer 5

The late 18th and 19th century .

Question 6

What was one of the main reasons which made urbanisation happen in MEDCs?

Answer 6

Mechanisation in farming.

Question 7

What did the new machinery mean in MEDCS?

Answer 7

It meant less labour needed, which led to unemployment amongst farm workers.

Question 8

What was the main attraction of the emerging industrial cities in MEDCS?

Answer 8

The growth of large scale production in factories in towns.

Question 9

What did many of the mine and factory owners do in MEDCs?

Answer 9

Built houses for their workers.

Question 10

What happened in the 20th century in MEDCS?

Answer 10

Towns and cities continued to grow causing rural depopulation.

Question 11

What did rural depopulation result in?

Answer 11

90% of the UK population is now classified as urban.

Question 12

However, what is happening today in big cities like USA and UK?

Answer 12

They are experiencing a loss of population as people are now able to commute to work or work from home due to advances in information technology.

Question 13

Urbanisation is happening a lot later in LEDCS.

Answer 13

Only since the 1950s and its happening a lot faster.

Question 14

What is one of the key reasons why urbanisation is occurring?

Answer 14

Rural to urban migration this is similar to MEDCS.

Question 15

In LEDCs people are pushed away from rural areas, why?

Answer 15

Due to mechanisation in farming, pulled towards cities.

Question 16

However, in LEDCS why is rural to urban migration also taking place?

Answer 16

Because of landless, drought, civil war and famine.

Question 17

How is the city pulling those who live in rural areas to the cities in LEDCS?

Answer 17

Chance of education.
Piped water.
Electricity.
Modern economic activities.
Entertainment.

Question 18

What is also much more rapid in LEDCS?

Answer 18

Natural increase.

High fertility rates and high rates if natural increase are characteristics of a developing country.

Question 19

What percentage of the UKS population live in urban areas?

Answer 19

80%.

Question 20

What percentage of Bangladesh’s population live in urban areas?

Answer 20

25%.

Question 21

What happened 200 hundred years ago:?

Answer 21

London was the only city to have a million people.

Question 22

What happened in the 1950s?

Answer 22

1/3 lived in cities.

Now more than half live in cities.

Question 23

What was New York in the 1950s?

Answer 23

It was the only global mega city.

Question 24

What is the natural increase?

Answer 24

Number of babies born minus the number of deaths.

Question 25

What is counter urbanisation?

Answer 25

Back to urban from rural