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Higher Geography

• URBAN GEOGRAPHY

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Urbanisation

• Urbanisation is an increase in the proportion of
  people living in urban areas (towns and cities).
• On a world scale this has happened twice
• In MEDCs during the 19th century due to
  industrialisation.
• In LEDCs since the 1950s due to a high natural
  increase and migration from rural to urban areas.

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Terminology

• Urbanisation Growth of cities and towns
• Suburbanisation People and industries move out
  to the edge of towns and cities
• Counter-urbanisation Movement of industry and
  people to small settlements outside urban areas.
• Re-urbanisation The movement of industry and
  people back into urban areas (left abandoned
  after industrial closure or suburbanisation)

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Most populated urban areas
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Worlds Largest Cities - 2006
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Worksheet 1

• Study the information given in worksheet 1.
• Answer the following questions
• 1 Describe the location of the worlds major
  cities (Figure A).
• 2 Describe how the location of the worlds
  largest cities has changed between 1950 and 2000
  (Map at bottom of the page).
• 3. Choose one city from the information you have
  just read. Discuss why the population in this
  city has changed over the period of time given.

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Counterurbanisation

• Urbanisation is now in decline in some MEDCs and
  has been replaced by counterurbanisation.
• People are now moving back out of cities to rural
  areas because of problems such as crime,
  unemployment, traffic congestion and social
  problems such as vandalism.
• Many people still work in the city but live in
  the cleaner environment of the countryside. For
  example in dormitory towns and commuter
  settlements.