geography section 4- settlement
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- geography section four-settlement
- urbanisation
- definition: the net movement of people from the country to the city.
- urbanisation is common in LEDC's because there is a lower concentration of people living in the city.
- example: in the UK (MEDC) there are 80% of people living in urban areas wheras there are only 25% of the Bangladeshi population living in urban areas (LEDC)
- urbanisation is caused by rural-urban migration.
- pull factors include higher wages,more jobs and better services and health care.
- push factors: fewer jobs, lower wages and lack of pubic services.
- impacts include overcrowding, traffic and pollution, squatter settlements and even fewer services in rural area due to lower demand.
- counter-urbanisation
- definition: the net movement of people from the city to the country
- common in medcs because majority live in urban areas
- push factors; high pollution, traffic,higher crime rate and higher housing prices.
- pull factors: cleaner, less traffic and pollutions, less stressful life style
- impacts of counter-urbanisation include cities becoming even more run down in high crime areas and increasing house price in the country side.
- urban land use
- the suburbs- housing areas towards the edge of the city. more curved roads and detached housing,
- inner city - around the cbd and contains old buildings of a lower quality, high quantities of terraced housing.
- central business district - commercial centre that includes offices and big retailers
- rural urban fringe - a mix between rural and urban land uses (eg. farms snd factories)
- retail services
- high order goods are only bought occasionally but are expensive
- low order goods are cheap and bought regularly
- threshold population - the minimum population needed to support a shop
- since larger shops sell high order goods they have a high threshold population. they also have a high rent because they are located nearer to the cbd. corner and village shops are the opposite.
- urbanisation
- urban land use
- the suburbs- housing areas towards the edge of the city. more curved roads and detached housing,
- inner city - around the cbd and contains old buildings of a lower quality, high quantities of terraced housing.
- central business district - commercial centre that includes offices and big retailers
- rural urban fringe - a mix between rural and urban land uses (eg. farms snd factories)
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