Urban Futures

• Megacities


  Cities with a population over 10 million
• World cities


  Most important cities in the global economy
• TNC's


  Trans-national companies
• Rural - urban migration

  The movement of people from the countryside to the cities
• Push factors


  Things that force or encourage people to leave the countryside
• Pull factors


  Things that attract people to the city
• Internal growth


  A result of a higher birth rate than death rate
• Migrant


  Person that moves from one place to another to live
• Infrastructure


  Infrastructure
• Slums


  A crowded urban area where people live in inadequate housing
• Squatter settlements


  Where people build their homes on any land that is available
• Suburbanisation


  Movement of people from the centre of the city to the edge or suburbs
• Urban sprawl


  The expansion of cities
• Green belt


  Open space around cities on which no further development is allowed
• Urban regeneration


  Improving cities by building new homes and improving the quality of life for local residents