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Urbanisation Year 8

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  • What was a key factor in urbanization?
    The Industrial revolution
  • What does development mean?
    A process of change that goes on in a city or country to improve peoples lives.
  • Explain what rural is.
    mainly villages, small towns and the country side.
  • What is a settlement?
    A place where people live
  • What is a squatter settlement?
    Illegally built structures or areas of housing that people live in or when people take over abandoned buildings and/or land to live in.
  • Explain what urban is
    built up areas, large towns and cities.
  • What is a push factor?
    push people away or out of a place.
  • What is urban sprawl?
    unplanned growth outwards (a city spreading out), expansion of cities and towns.
  • What was a key step in the growth of settlements?
    Farming
  • The process where more of the world is living in an urban area is called?
    Urbanisation
  • What country has the most megacities in the world?
    China
  • What are slums?
    area of very poor housing
  • What is a megacity?
    A city over 10 million people
  • What does CBD stand for?
    Central Business District
  • What is industry?
    manufacturing, like the car industry.
  • What is a pull factor?
    attract people to a place.
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