Urban Growth

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Define Urbanisation
Urbanisation is the process in which the increasing proportion of a country's population is living in urban areas.
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What is rural to open migration?
The movement of people from the country side to the city.
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Name to push factors for why people would want to leave the country side.
Poverty, unemployment, crop failure, natural disasters, war and conflict,
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Name to pull factors of Urbanisation.
higher employment, better services, political security, better education, high technology.
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What is natural increase?
When the birth rate is higher then the death rate.
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What is natural decrease?
When the death rate is higher then the birth rate.
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What is rural to open migration?

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The movement of people from the country side to the city.

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Name to push factors for why people would want to leave the country side.

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Name to pull factors of Urbanisation.

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What is natural increase?

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