Urbanisation

• A world city is an area where lots of businesses are located making it important in a country's money making potential. Important in the global economy
• Industrialisation is when a secondary industry starts to develop in a place.
• Urbanisation is an increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.
• A metacity is a city with over 20 million residents
• A megacity is a city with 10 million or more residents
• A global city is a city with significant influence in trade and status in world affairs
• A millionaire city has more than 1 million inhabitants.
• Suburbanisation is the outward growth of urban devlopment which may engulf surrounding villages and towns into larger urban agglomeration.
• Urban resurgence involves improving the social, economic and environmental aspects of inner city areas.
• Counter-urbanisation is the movement of people out of cities and towns into surrounding rural villages
• Decentrialisation is the process by which activities of an organisation are moved away from urban centres into retail and buisness parks in the suburbs
• Deindustrialisation is the long term decline of a country's manufacturing and heavy industry as it moves towards a service and knowledge based economy