Urbanisation Flashcards
What does urbanisation mean?
Urbanisation is the growth in the proportion of a country’s population living in urban areas.
How common is urbanisation?
It happens all over the world, more than 50% of the world’s population live in urban areas (3.9 billion people) , and it increases everyday.
What’s urbanisation like in developed countries?
Happened earlier in more developed countries e.g. The industrial revolution in the 18th and 19th century but now 79% of the population of developed countries live in an urban area so there is a slow rate of urban growth.
What’s urbanisation like in developing countries?
A smaller population (35%) of the population live in urban areas, but has the fastest urban growing rate.
What’s urbanisation like in emerging countries?
It varies a lot, some experience it a lot but some not at all.
Why does a growth in megacities occur?
When urbanisation increases as more people move to urban areas. A megacity has 10 million people living there. The amount of megacities has risen from 2 in 1950 and to 28 in 2014 (predicted 41 by 2030).
Where are most megacities?
More than two thirds of current megacities are in developing and emerging countries, mostly in Asia (e.g.Jakarta, Karachi, Dhaka).
What is a primate city?
A primate city is a city that has twice the amount of people compared to the next city which means they often have a high economic power , the city that dominates the country.
What is an alpha + city?
The two alpha ++ cities are located in two developed countries in North America and Europe (NYC and London), the system is graded based on the cities economical significance.
What is an Alpha + city?
They are located mostly in the north of the world and there aren’t any in South America or Africa.
