Urban Issues and challenges Key words

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What is urbanization
Becoming a city with more buildings and more jobs
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Natural Increase
population increasing due to new borns:
birth rate-death rate in a capacity of 1,000 people
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push pull theory
negatives PUSH people away from a country and Pull factors are positives attract them
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Migration
movement of people
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immigration
arriving in a new country
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emigration
leaving a country
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mega city
a city that has over 10 million living there
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urban industrial area
a place that offers jobs, area of city that makes money
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urban planning
improvements that bring about long term change to an area
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world city
a city that holds a lot of power and influence on the world. Economically, politically, culturally
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urban greening
increasing vegetation and greenery in a city
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urban deprivation
a lack of something that prevents a group of people having the same quality of life as others
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urban sprawl
unplanned growth of an area into country side
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population increasing due to new borns:
birth rate-death rate in a capacity of 1,000 people

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Natural Increase

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negatives PUSH people away from a country and Pull factors are positives attract them

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movement of people

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arriving in a new country

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