Geography Unit 1 Urban Issues and Challenges

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urbanisation
the process by which a greater % of the worlds population live in towns and cities.
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natural increase
birth rate - death rate + migration
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push factors
negative factors pushing you away from where you live
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pull factors
positive things about the area you are thinking of moving to
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population distribution
how a population is spread out over a given area
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population density
how crowded an area is measured per square KM
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brownfield sites
sites that have already been built on or previously used for industries and that are cleared and re-used for other purposes
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greenfield sites
sites that have not been built on before - often protected
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favela
illegally built squatter settlement, often in the outskirts of the cities inhabited by the poorest elements of society
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Card 2

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birth rate - death rate + migration

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natural increase

Card 3

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negative factors pushing you away from where you live

Back

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Card 4

Front

positive things about the area you are thinking of moving to

Back

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Card 5

Front

how a population is spread out over a given area

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