World Cities Key Terms
- Created by: Becky Humphreys
- Created on: 10-05-13 09:17
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- World Cities Key Terms
- Counter - Urbanisation
- Movement of people from large to small urban areas or rural areas
- Leapfrog the rural-urban fringe
- It may mean commuting
- Increase use of tecnology for at home working
- Re -Urbanisation
- Movement of people and economic activity into city centre
- Characteristics-refurbishment of old housing by affluent people GENTRIFICATION
- Size of urban Area
- Varies according to boundary chosen
- Adminstrative boundary
- continguous built up area
- Suburbanisation
- People moving from inner city to outer edges
- Aided by increase of car ownership and increse of public transport networks - allows commuting
- Urban Growth
- Increase of urban dwellers
- classification of urban dwellers depend on census definitions
- Population size, population density, average distance between buildings
- Urbanisation
- Increase in countries proportion that live in urban areas
- Causes: Natural population growth, migration from rural to urban
- Counter - Urbanisation
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